National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4936

Overview

faxspool in mgetty 1.1.36 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/faxsp.##### temporary file.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (11/06/2008)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of mgetty as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5, as they include patch that resolves this issue.

Official Statement from Mandriva (12/09/2008)

This issue was fixed on May 5, 2003 for all Mandriva Linux products.

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235806

Hyperlink:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235806

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

Hyperlink:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

External Source: XF

Name: mgetty-faxspool-symlink(44833)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44833

External Source: BID

Name: 30927

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30927

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfire

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2

External Source: MISC

Name: http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt

Hyperlink:http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200812-08

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-08.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33051

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33051

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/mgetty-fax

Hyperlink:http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/mgetty-fax

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.debian.org/496403

Hyperlink:http://bugs.debian.org/496403