CVE-2012-5628

MEDIUM 4.4CVE-2012-5628 · Published 04/05/2018 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-5628 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.4) vulnerability affecting gofer (gofer project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.27%, higher than 18.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gofer gofer_project	`= 0.68`	No fix yet

Description

gofer before 0.68 uses world-writable permissions for /var/lib/gofer/journal/watchdog, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by removing journal entries.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking

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