Published: 15/10/2008 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 641

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

fence_manual, as used in fence 2.02.00-r1 and possibly cman, allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the fence_manual.fifo temporary file.

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gentoo cman 2.02.00
gentoo fence 2.02.00

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 ...

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) ...

CWE-59 NVD-CWE-noinfo http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/13/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/16/1 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240576 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-875-1 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45953 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496410 https://usn.ubuntu.com/875-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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