Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-4956 to the following vulnerability: Name: CVE-2008-4956 URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4956 Assigned: 20081105 MLIST: [oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfire URL: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 CONFIRM: http://bugs.debian.org/496406 CONFIRM: http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/fwbuilder CONFIRM: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 CONFIRM: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235809 fwb_install in fwbuilder 2.1.19 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/ssh-agent.##### temporary file. Note: the description only indicates 2.1.19 but I have verified this issue affects both Fedora 9 and 10. There are no ssh-agent calls in fwbuilder as packaged in Fedora 11.
Created fwbuilder tracking bugs for this issue CVE-2008-4956 Affects: F10 [bug #508224]
Created attachment 349527 [details] patch proposed on the debian bts