| Title | GNU cramfs-tools below v2.2 Symlink Following |
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| Description | GNU cramfs-tools is a set of utilities for managing the Cramfs (Compressed ROM File System), a lightweight, read-only Linux file system optimized for space efficiency and low memory usage. It includes mkcramfs/mkfs.cramfs to create Cramfs images from directories, and cramfsck to verify integrity or extract contents.
cramfs-tools cramfsck contains a hostile-prestate filesystem issue in continue-on-error mode (-c): if the chosen extraction directory already exists as a symlink, cramfsck -x records the mkdir() failure but still continues extraction and performs filesystem writes through the symlink target, outside the intended destination directory.
This aligns with CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. |
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| Source | ⚠️ https://github.com/npitre/cramfs-tools/issues/13 |
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| User | nich0las (UID 51709) |
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| Submission | 04/24/2026 04:52 (3 months ago) |
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| Moderation | 05/17/2026 11:59 (23 days later) |
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| Status | Accepted |
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| VulDB entry | 364408 [npitre cramfs-tools up to 2.2 cramfsck.c change_file_status symlink] |
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| Points | 20 |
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