CVE-2008-4192

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-08-24
CWE:
CWE-377
Bugzilla:
460476: CVE-2008-4192 cman/fence: insecure temporary file usage in the egenera fence agent

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The pserver_shutdown function in fence_egenera in cman 2.20080629 and 2.20080801 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/eglog temporary file.

Find out more about CVE-2008-4192 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 1.2
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (cman) RHBA-2010:0266 2010-03-30
Red Hat Cluster Suite 4AS (fence) RHSA-2011:0266 2011-02-16

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