CVE-2008-4953

Description

firehol in firehol 1.256 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/.firehol-tmp-#####-*-* and (2) /tmp/firehol.conf temporary files. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating that an attack "would require an attacker to create 1073741824*PID-RANGE symlinks.

References

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2

http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/firehol

http://bugs.debian.org/496424

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3