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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-4664: Firewall Builder: Privilege escalation

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-4664: Firewall Builder: Privilege escalation

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/03/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Firewall Builder 3.0.4, 3.0.5, and 3.0.6, when running on Linux, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file that is created by the iptables script.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-firewall-fwbuilder

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