Detections
Analytics
CVE-2020-13696
medium
Description
An issue was discovered in LinuxTV xawtv before 3.107. The function dev_open() in v4l-conf.c does not perform sufficient checks to prevent an unprivileged caller of the program from opening unintended filesystem paths. This allows a local attacker with access to the v4l-conf setuid-root program to test for the existence of arbitrary files and to trigger an open on arbitrary files with mode O_RDWR. To achieve this, relative path components need to be added to the device path, as demonstrated by a v4l-conf -c /dev/../root/.bash_history command.
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4518-1/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00018.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/06/04/6
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00009.html
https://git.linuxtv.org/xawtv3.git/commit/?id=8e3feea862db68d3ca0886f46cd99fab45d2db7c
https://git.linuxtv.org/xawtv3.git/commit/?id=36dc44e68e5886339b4a0fbe3f404fb1a4fd2292
https://git.linuxtv.org/xawtv3.git/commit/?id=31f31f9cbaee7be806cba38e0ff5431bd44b20a3