Bug 1267962 (CVE-2015-8326) - CVE-2015-8326 perl-IPTables-Parse: Use of predictable names for temporary files
Summary: CVE-2015-8326 perl-IPTables-Parse: Use of predictable names for temporary files
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2015-8326
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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: 1284922 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 1267963 1267964 1267965
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-01 13:14 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-06-01 12:48 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: IPTables-Parse 1.6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:43:48 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-10-01 13:14:22 UTC 
A vulnerability in perl-IPTables-Parse was found, when using predictable file names for its temporary files. This vulnerability allows attacker on a multi-user system to set up symlinks to overwrite any file the current user has write access to.

Note that perl-IPTables-Parse is also used by fwsnort and perl-IPTables-ChainMgr, which is used by psad.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/mtrmac/IPTables-Parse/commit/b400b976d81140f6971132e94eb7657b5b0a2b87
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-10-01 13:15:11 UTC 
Created perl-IPTables-Parse tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1267963]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1267964]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1267965]
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-11-19 10:01:56 UTC 
perl-IPTables-Parse-1.5-2.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-11-19 12:23:00 UTC 
perl-IPTables-Parse-1.5-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-11-20 23:24:38 UTC 
perl-IPTables-Parse-1.5-2.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Martin Prpič 2015-11-24 13:49:22 UTC 
*** Bug 1284922 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Martin Prpič 2015-11-24 13:50:20 UTC 
CVE request:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/366
Comment 8 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:43:48 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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