National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1078
Original release date:02/29/2008
Last revised:01/10/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
expn in the am-utils and net-fs packages for Gentoo, rPath Linux, and other distributions, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the expn[PID] temporary file. NOTE: this is the same issue as CVE-2003-0308.1.
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
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 (03/04/2008)
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The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk.We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red HatEnterprise Linux.
For more information please see the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435420
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-10755
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2255
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0088
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33400
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29187
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29144
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210158
External Source: BID
Name: 28044
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080228 rPSA-2008-0088-1 am-utils
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200804-09
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29694