CVE-2008-4953
N/A
Published: November 5, 2008 at 02:51 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:58 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFirehol
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (4)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2x_refsource_CONFIRMx_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-59
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