PT-2014-2216 · Iproute2 · Iproute2

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2014-02-15 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2012-1088

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 iproute2 versions prior to 3.3.0

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file used by certain scripts. This can be exploited through the configure script or the examples/dhcp-client-script.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.3.0, update to version 3.3.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the configure and examples/dhcp-client-script scripts until the update is applied.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-1088

Affected Products

Iproute2

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-1088 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1088 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-1088 · Vendor Advisory
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-1088 · Security Note
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=20ed7b24df05eadf83168d1d0ce0052a31380928 · Note
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e557d1ac3a156ba7521ba44b0b412af4542f83f8 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797878 · Note