National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-6552
Original release date:03/30/2009
Last revised:01/23/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Red Hat Cluster Project 2.x allows local users to modify or overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks on files in /tmp, involving unspecified components in Resource Group Manager (aka rgmanager) before 2.03.09-1, gfs2-utils before 2.03.09-1, and CMAN - The Cluster Manager before 2.03.09-1 on Fedora 9.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: XF
Name: clusterproject-unspecified-priv-escalation(46412)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2011-0417
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2011-0416
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-875-1
External Source: BID
Name: 32179
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2011:0265
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2011:0264
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:1341
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:1339
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-9458
Type: Advisory
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-9458
Type: Advisory
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-9458
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 43372
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 43367
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36555
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36530
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32616
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32602
Type: Advisory
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:1337
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11404
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 50301
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 50300
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 50299
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11404
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5