Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5746

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-09-26 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:07:59
Assigner microfocus
State PUBLISHED

Description

libstorage, libstorage-ng, and yast-storage improperly store passphrases for encrypted storage devices in a temporary file on disk, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file, as demonstrated by /tmp/libstorage-XXXXXX/pwdf.