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Debian: CVE-2008-4953: firehol -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2008-4953: firehol -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
05/15/2025
Created
05/16/2025
Added
05/15/2025
Modified
05/27/2025

Description

** DISPUTED ** 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."

Solution(s)

  • no-fix-debian-deb-package

References

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