CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4953
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-11-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
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.
Affected configurations
• firehol firehol 1.256
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/496424 bugs.debian.org
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/firehol dev.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 www.openwall.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/496424 bugs.debian.org
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/firehol dev.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 www.openwall.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org