CVE-2016-5746

Publication date

2016-09-26 15:00:00

Family

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.