PT-2009-6357 · Merkaartor · Merkaartor

Paul Wise · Published 2009-12-03 · Updated 2017-08-17 · CVE-2009-4193

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.3

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Merkaartor version 0.14

Description The issue allows local users to append data to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/merkaartor.log temporary file.

Recommendations For Merkaartor version 0.14, consider restricting access to the /tmp/merkaartor.log file to prevent symlink attacks until a patch is available.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-4193

Affected Products

Merkaartor

References · 12

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-4193 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4193 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00869.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00870.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36897 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4193 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/36529 · Patch
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-4193 · Vendor Advisory
• http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2320 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/58389 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548546 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53486 · Note