PT-2008-1489 · Red Hat · Setroubleshoot+1

Published 2008-05-20 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2007-5495

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions setroubleshoot version 2.0.5

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the sealert.log temporary file. This is related to the sealert function in setroubleshoot.

Recommendations For setroubleshoot version 2.0.5, consider restricting access to the sealert.log file to prevent a symlink attack until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the sealert function in setroubleshoot until the issue is resolved.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-5495

RHSA-2008:0061

RHSA-2008_0061

Affected Products

Red Hat

Setroubleshoot

References · 11

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5495 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0061 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-5496 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/29320 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30339 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=288221 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-5495 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42591 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1020077 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9705 · Note
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0061.html · Patch, Vendor Advisory