Link following in iproute2 - CVE-2012-1088
Published: February 15, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42030
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-1088
CWE-ID: CWE-59
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate or delete data.
iproute2 before 3.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file used by (1) configure or (2) examples/dhcp-client-script.
Affected software
iproute2
Amazon Linux AMI
Amazon Linux AMI
How to mitigate CVE-2012-1088
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git;a=commit;h=20ed7b24df05eadf83168d1d0ce0052a31380928
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git;a=commit;h=e557d1ac3a156ba7521ba44b0b412af4542f83f8
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797878