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android-tools: udev rules set insecure permissions

Package(s):android-tools CVE #(s):
Created:May 21, 2012 Updated:December 4, 2012
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

udev rules file packaged with android-tools consists of rules like this:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0502", MODE="0666"

IOW for *any* device with the given vendor ID, its associated device nodes will be world-writable.

Despite it follows the upstream guidelines at http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html, this is obviously insecure and contradicts the common practice of using ACL to grant access to the current console user via TAG+="uaccess".

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-7677 2012-05-19
Fedora FEDORA-2012-18748 2012-12-04
Fedora FEDORA-2012-18782 2012-12-04

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