CVE-2017-16355

Priority
Description
In agent/Core/SpawningKit/Spawner.h in Phusion Passenger 5.1.10 (fixed in
Passenger Open Source 5.1.11 and Passenger Enterprise 5.1.10), if Passenger
is running as root, it is possible to list the contents of arbitrary files
on a system by symlinking a file named REVISION from the application root
folder to a file of choice and querying passenger-status --show=xml.
Notes
Package
Upstream:released (5.1.10, 5.1.11, 5.0.30-1.1)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:released (5.0.30-1+deb9u1build0.18.04.1)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:not-affected (5.0.30-1.1)
Ubuntu 21.10:not-affected (5.0.30-1.1)
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:not-affected (5.0.30-1.1)
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:DNE
Patches:
Upstream:https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf
Upstream:https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/947af424330f5d5f5006860b2f0140bbba153e42
Package
Upstream:needed
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:DNE
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:DNE
Ubuntu 21.10:DNE
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:DNE
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:DNE (trusty was needed)
Patches:
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Updated: 2022-04-25 00:19:44 UTC (commit ecc1009cb19540b950de59270950018900f37f15)