Link following in SUSE Linux and Opensuse - CVE-2009-1297

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Link following in SUSE Linux and Opensuse - CVE-2009-1297

Published: October 23, 2009 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33704
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-1297
CWE-ID: CWE-59
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

iscsi_discovery in open-iscsi in SUSE openSUSE 10.3 through 11.1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 10 SP2 and 11, and other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file that has a predictable name.


Affected software

SUSE Linux
Opensuse
open-iscsi (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2009-1297

Install update from vendor's website.

open-iscsi (Alpine package) - update to 2.0.871-r0

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