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CVE-1999-1572 [severity LOW] 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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in rev 1.3 of cpio/main.c.","vendorComments":[{"organization":"Red Hat","comment":"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.","lastModified":"2007-03-14T00:00:00"}]}},