Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4953

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-11-05 14:51:00

Last updated 2024-09-17 02:53:26

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

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.

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