Bug 510024 (CVE-2009-1893)
| Summary: | CVE-2009-1893 dhcp: insecure temporary file use in the dhcpd init script | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Tomas Hoger <thoger> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | bressers, dcantrell, jlieskov, security-response-team |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-07-21 16:50:51 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 188575, 507734 | ||
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Description
Tomas Hoger
2009-07-07 13:19:28 UTC
This issue did not affect dhcp packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, and current Fedora versions (9, 10, 11). Opening bug This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Via RHSA-2009:1154 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1154.html MITRE's CVE-2009-1893 entry: The configtest function in the Red Hat dhcpd init script for DHCP 3.0.1 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file, related to the "dhcpd -t" command. References: ---------- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1893 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1154.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35670 http://securitytracker.com/id?1022554 http://secunia.com/advisories/35831 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/51718 |