CVE-2016-8605

A vulnerability was found in guile, in the mkdir procedure's usage of umask(2). Under particular circumstances, an attacker could influence an application written in guile to create directories or files insecurely, potentially exposing them to being read or manipulated by local users.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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