CVE-2008-4474 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

freeradius-dialupadmin in freeradius 2.0.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in (1) backup_radacct, (2) clean_radacct, (3) monthly_tot_stats, (4) tot_stats, and (5) truncate_radacct.

freeradius-dialupadmin in freeradius 2.0.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in (1) backup_radacct, (2) clean_radacct, (3) monthly_tot_stats, (4) tot_stats, and (5) truncate_radacct.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2008-10-07 21:11:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2009-02-06 07:00:00

Affected Software

FreeRADIUS 2.0.4

2.0.4

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496389

http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/freeradius-dialupadmin

[debian-devel] 20080811 Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

SUSE-SR:2008:028

32170

33151

http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt

[oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfire

30901

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

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