CVEs-PoC/2008/CVE-2008-4953.md

CVE-2008-4953

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.

POC

Reference

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

Github

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