National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4579
Original release date:10/15/2008
Last revised:02/26/2009
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):
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
- Official Statement from Red Hat (10/17/2008)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-4579
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security
impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding
issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-9042
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467386
External Source: BID
Name: 31904
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081013 Re: CVE Request
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32390
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32387
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240576