National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4580
Original release date:10/15/2008
Last revised:01/10/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
fence_manual, as used in fence 2.02.00-r1 and possibly cman, allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the fence_manual.fifo temporary file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
**NOTE: Access Complexity scored Low due to insufficient information
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
Official Statement from Red Hat (11/12/2009)
Manual fencing agent is documented to only be provided for testing purposes and should not be used in production environments. Therefore, there is no plan to fix this flaw in Red Hat Cluster Suite for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, and in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
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External Source: XF
Name: fence-fencemanual-symlink(45953)
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081016 Re: CVE Request
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081013 Re: CVE Request
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240576
