PT-2008-5258 · Honeyd · Honeyd

Published 2008-09-04 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-3928

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Honeyd version 1.5c

Description The issue allows local users to potentially overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file created by the test.sh script in Honeyd.

Recommendations For Honeyd version 1.5c, consider restricting access to the test.sh script until a patch is available, or apply configuration changes to prevent temporary files from being created in insecure locations.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3928

Affected Products

Honeyd

References · 11

• http://secunia.com/advisories/33141 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31658 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-12.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3928 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496365 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30874 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 · Note
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt · Note
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/honeyd-common · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44735 · Note