Link following in Fedora - CVE-2014-3219
Published: February 9, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU37554
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3219
CWE-ID: CWE-59
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Fedoraproject
Affected software:
Fedora
Fedora
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.
fish before 2.1.1 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/fishd.log.%s, (2) /tmp/.pac-cache.$USER, (3) /tmp/.yum-cache.$USER, or (4) /tmp/.rpm-cache.$USER.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-3219
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132751.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00059.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00071.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-49.xml
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/06/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/28/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67115
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1092091
- https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/commit/3225d7e169a9edb2f470c26989e7bc8e0d0355ce
- https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/1440