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CVE-2008-4580

Impact:: Low
Public Date:: 2008-10-13
CWE:: CWE-377

Bugzilla:: 467387: CVE-2008-4580 cman/fence: insecure temporary file usage in the manual fence agent

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

fence_manual, as used in fence 2.02.00-r1 and possibly cman, allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the fence_manual.fifo temporary file.

Find out more about CVE-2008-4580 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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Manual fencing agent is documented to only be provided for testing purposes and should not be used in production environments. Therefore, there is no plan to fix this flaw in Red Hat Cluster Suite for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, and in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Last Modified 2018-04-28T15:51:06+00:00

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