CVE-2008-4579 (GCVE-0-2008-4579)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-10-15 20:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:24
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
The (1) fence_apc and (2) fence_apc_snmp programs, as used in (a) fence 2.02.00-r1 and possibly (b) cman, when running in verbose mode, allows local users to append to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the apclog temporary file.
References
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