CVE-2008-4953 Information

Description

LICENSE README.md cvefilelist cvelist nvdcve nvdpages.sh scripts test-CVE-2017-1882.markdown test-CVE-2017-18822.markdown tmpvendorlinks DISPUTED LICENSE README.md cvefilelist cvelist nvdcve nvdpages.sh scripts test-CVE-2017-1882.markdown test-CVE-2017-18822.markdown tmpvendorlinks firehol in firehol 1.256 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/.firehol-tmp–- and (2) /tmp/firehol.conf temporary files. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability stating that an attack \would require an attacker to create 1073741824*PID-RANGE symlinks.\

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496424 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/firehol http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770