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CVSSv2

CVE-2008-4579

Published: 15/10/2008 Updated: 13/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 1.9 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 169
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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Vulnerability Summary

The (1) fence_apc and (2) fence_apc_snmp programs, as used in (a) fence 2.02.00-r1 and possibly (b) cman, when running in verbose mode, allows local users to append to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the apclog temporary file.

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gentoo cman 2.02.00

gentoo fence 2.02.00

Vendor Advisories

Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages
Debian Bug report logs - #496410 The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages Package: cman; Maintainer for cman is Debian HA Maintainers <debian-ha-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for cman is src:redhat-cluster (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: "Dmitry E Oboukhov" <dimka@uvw ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: redhat-cluster, redhat-cluster-suite vulnerabilities
Multiple insecure temporary file handling vulnerabilities were discovered in Red Hat Cluster A local attacker could exploit these to overwrite arbitrary local files via symlinks (CVE-2008-4192, CVE-2008-4579, CVE-2008-4580, CVE-2008-6552) ...

References

CWE-59http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240576http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/13/3https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467386http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31904https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00666.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/32387http://secunia.com/advisories/32390http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-875-1http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0266.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/43362http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0419http://secunia.com/advisories/36530http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1341.htmlhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10799https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496410https://usn.ubuntu.com/875-1/https://nvd.nist.gov
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