ctdb before 2.3 in OpenSUSE 12.3 and 13.1 does not create temporary files securely, which has unspecified impact related to "several temp file vulnerabilities" in (1) tcp/tcp_connect.c, (2) server/eventscript.c, (3) tools/ctdb_diagnostics, (4) config/gdb_backtrace, and (5) include/ctdb_private.h.

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

  - ctdb before 2.3 in OpenSUSE 12.3 and 13.1 does not create temporary files securely, which has unspecified     impact related to several temp file vulnerabilities in (1) tcp/tcp_connect.c, (2) server/eventscript.c,     (3) tools/ctdb_diagnostics, (4) config/gdb_backtrace, and (5) include/ctdb_private.h. (CVE-2013-4159)

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

Updated ctdb packages fix security vulnerability :

ctdb before 2.5 is vulnerable to symlink attacks to due the use of predictable filenames in /tmp, such as /tmp/ctdb.socket (CVE-2013-4159).

Updated to a ctdb version which does not use /tmp anymore.

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.

ctdb was updated to version 2.3 to fix several temp file vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-4159). Various other bugs were fixed by this upgrade, most notably bnc#867815: Avoid lockwait congestion by using an overflow queue.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
217920	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2013-4159	Nessus	Misc.	critical
82452	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ctdb (MDVSA-2015:177)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
80143	Fedora 20 : ctdb-2.5.4-2.fc20 (2014-16742)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
76229	openSUSE Security Update : ctdb (openSUSE-SU-2014:0842-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2013-4159

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