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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4579

Original release date:10/15/2008

Last revised:01/23/2013

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

The (1) fence_apc and (2) fence_apc_snmp programs, as used in (a) fence 2.02.00-r1 and possibly (b) cman, when running in verbose mode, allows local users to append to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the apclog temporary file.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:1.9 (LOW) (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 3.4

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Locally exploitable

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (09/02/2009)

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. This issue is addressed in the cman package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1337.html This issue also affects the fence package in Red Hat Cluster Suite for Enterprise Linux 4AS, a future update may address this flaw: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-4579

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External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-9042

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00666.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467386

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467386

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0419

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0419

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-875-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-875-1