Link following in iproute2 - CVE-2012-1088

 

Link following in iproute2 - CVE-2012-1088

Published: February 15, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU42030
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-1088
CWE-ID: CWE-59
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Stephen Hemminger
Affected software:
iproute2

Detailed vulnerability description

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.


How to mitigate CVE-2012-1088

Install update from vendor's website.

Sources