iproute2 before 3.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file used by (1) configure or (2) examples/dhcp-client-script.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - iproute: multiple insecure temporary file use issues (CVE-2012-1088)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - iproute: multiple insecure temporary file use issues (CVE-2012-1088)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - iproute: multiple insecure temporary file use issues (CVE-2012-1088)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

Address dangerous /tmp files security issue

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199657	RHEL 4 : iproute (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199656	RHEL 6 : iproute (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199630	RHEL 5 : iproute (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
69671	Amazon Linux AMI : iproute (ALAS-2012-64)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	low
58464	Fedora 15 : iproute-2.6.38.1-6.fc15 (2012-3068)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
58463	Fedora 16 : iproute-2.6.39-5.fc16 (2012-3008)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
58418	Fedora 17 : iproute-3.2.0-3.fc17 (2012-2818)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2012-1088

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium

low

low

low

low