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CVE-2009-4664

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.

Published

2010-03-03T20:30:00.650

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 3.3 (LOW)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

3.4

Impact Score

4.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-59

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	fwbuilder	firewall_builder	3.0.4	Yes
Application	fwbuilder	firewall_builder	3.0.5	Yes
Application	fwbuilder	firewall_builder	3.0.6	Yes
Operating System	linux	linux_kernel	*	No

References

http://blog.fwbuilder.org/2009/09/firewall-builder-v307-released.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035112.html ([email protected])
http://osvdb.org/58247 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/36809 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.fwbuilder.org/docs/firewall_builder_release_notes.html#3.0.7 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36468 ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0389 ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524588 ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53392 ([email protected])
http://blog.fwbuilder.org/2009/09/firewall-builder-v307-released.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035112.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://osvdb.org/58247 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/36809 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.fwbuilder.org/docs/firewall_builder_release_notes.html#3.0.7 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36468 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0389 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524588 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53392 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)