PT-2008-6127 · Firehol+1 · Firehol+1

Robert Buchholz · Published 2008-11-05 · Updated 2024-08-07 · CVE-2008-4953

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 firehol version 1.256

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files, specifically (1) /tmp/.firehol-tmp-#####-- and (2) /tmp/firehol.conf. The vendor disputes this issue, stating that an attack would require creating a large number of symlinks.

Recommendations For firehol version 1.256, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the temporary files /tmp/.firehol-tmp-#####-- and /tmp/firehol.conf to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4953

Affected Products

Debian

Firehol

References · 12

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4953 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/firehol · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4953 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4953 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4953 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4953 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/89603 · Telegram Post
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/firehol · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/496424 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 · Note
• https://packages.debian.org/src:firehol · Note