Insecure File Permissions in cpio on FreeBSD and Debian GNU/Linux

CVE-1999-1572 · LOW Severity

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

cpio on FreeBSD 2.1.0, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, and possibly other operating systems, uses a 0 umask when creating files using the -O (archive) or -F options, which creates the files with mode 0666 and allows local users to read or overwrite those files.

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