CVE-2018-19044

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 8, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Nov 6, 2018

Description

keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for pathnames with symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local users to overwrite arbitrary files if fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/acassen/keepalived/commit/04f2d32871bb3b11d7dc024039952f2fe2750306
GLSA-201903-01vendor-advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015141
https://github.com/acassen/keepalived/issues/1048
RHSA-2019:2285vendor-advisory

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