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Low · 3.3 CVE-2024-51491 EUVD-2025-0040GHSA-qjh3-4j3h-vmwpGO-2025-3382

Process crash during CRL-based revocation check on OS using separate mount point for temp Directory in notation-go

Published Jan 13, 2025 · Updated Jan 14, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

notion-go is a collection of libraries for supporting sign and verify OCI artifacts. Based on Notary Project specifications. The issue was identified during Quarkslab's security audit on the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) based revocation check feature.
After retrieving the CRL, notation-go attempts to update the CRL cache using the os.Rename method. However, this operation may fail due to operating system-specific limitations, particularly when the source and destination paths are on different mount points. This failure could lead to an unexpected program termination. In method `crl.(*FileCache).Set`, a temporary file is created in the OS dedicated area (like /tmp for, usually, Linux/Unix). The file is written and then it is tried to move it to the dedicated `notation` cache directory thanks `os.Rename`. As specified in Go documentation, OS specific restriction may apply. When used with Linux OS, it is relying on rename syscall from the libc and as per the documentation, moving a file to a different mountpoint raises an EXDEV error, interpreted as Cross device link not permitted error. Some Linux distribution, like RedHat use a dedicated filesystem (tmpfs), mounted on a specific mountpoint (usually /tmp) for temporary files. When using such OS, revocation check based on CRL will repeatedly crash notation. As a result the signature verification process is aborted as process crashes. This issue has been addressed in version 1.3.0-rc.2 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
notaryproject notation-go = 1.3.0-rc.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 golang-github-notaryproject-notation +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS golang-github-notaryproject-notation-go No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 golang-github-notaryproject-notation +1 No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS golang-github-notaryproject-notation No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250128T150132-150000.1.29.1 SUSE-SU-2025:0297-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250115T172141-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:14653-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250128T150132-150000.1.29.1 SUSE-SU-2025:0297-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/notaryproject/notation-go >= 1.3.0-rc.1, < 1.3.0-rc.2 1.3.0-rc.2 GHSA-qjh3-4j3h-vmwp

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