CVE-2008-4192

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-09-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The pserver_shutdown function in fence_egenera in cman 2.20080629 and 2.20080801 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/eglog temporary file.

Affected products

RedHat Cman: 2.20080629, 2.20080801

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496410
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/cman
http://secunia.com/advisories/31887
http://secunia.com/advisories/32387
http://secunia.com/advisories/32390
http://secunia.com/advisories/43362
http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/18/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/24/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0266.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30898

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