FireHOL Insecure Local Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

BID:12336

Info

FireHOL Insecure Local Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 12336
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jan 24 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 24 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to Sam Couter.
Vulnerable: FireHOL FireHOL 1.224
FireHOL FireHOL 1.214
Not Vulnerable: FireHOL FireHOL 1.226

Discussion

FireHOL Insecure Local Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

FireHOL is prone to a local insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. This could allow arbitrary files to be overwritten.

Exploit / POC

FireHOL Insecure Local Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

Solution / Fix

FireHOL Insecure Local Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released FireHOL 1.226 to address this issue.

Gentoo has released advisory GLSA 200502-01 to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information. Gentoo users may carry out the following commands to update their systems:

emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-firewall/firehol-1.224"


FireHOL FireHOL 1.214

References

FireHOL Insecure Local Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

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