Insecure Storage of Passphrases in libstorage, libstorage-ng, and yast-storage

Insecure Storage of Passphrases in libstorage, libstorage-ng, and yast-storage

CVE-2016-5746 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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.

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