CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4579
1.9 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-10-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
The (1) fence_apc and (2) fence_apc_snmp programs, as used in (a) fence 2.02.00-r1 and possibly (b) cman, when running in verbose mode, allows local users to append to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the apclog temporary file.
Affected configurations
• gentoo cman 2.02.00
• gentoo fence 2.02.00
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240576 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32387 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32390 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36530 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43362 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/13/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1341.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0266.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31904 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-875-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0419 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467386 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10799 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00666.html www.redhat.com
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240576 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32387 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32390 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36530 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43362 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/13/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1341.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0266.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31904 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-875-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0419 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467386 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10799 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00666.html www.redhat.com