CVE-2008-4953 | BDVDB-2026-33264 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/firehol
http://bugs.debian.org/496424

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12008-11-05Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-09-17Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.