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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-4192 Detail

Current Description

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.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (10/17/2008)

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-2008-4192 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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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496410 CVE, MITRE
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/cman CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/31887 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32387 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32390 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/43362 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt CVE, MITRE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/18/3 CVE, MITRE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/24/2 CVE, MITRE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0266.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30898 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-875-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0419 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460476 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44845 CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00666.html CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-4192
NVD Published Date:
09/29/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE