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 Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2012-1088)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

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
217640	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2012-1088	Nessus	Misc.	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

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CVE-2012-1088

medium

Tenable Plugins

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