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CVE-2008-6552

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-03-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Red Hat Cluster Project 2.x allows local users to modify or overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks on files in /tmp, involving unspecified components in Resource Group Manager (aka rgmanager) before 2.03.09-1, gfs2-utils before 2.03.09-1, and CMAN - The Cluster Manager before 2.03.09-1 on Fedora 9.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 9
• RedHat Cluster Project: 2.00.00, 2.01.00, 2.02.00, 2.03.00, 2.03.01, 2.03.03 (+21)
• RedHat Cman: 2.03.03-1, 2.03.04-1, 2.03.05-1, 2.03.07-1, 2.03.08-1
• RedHat Gfs2-Utils: 2.03.03-1, 2.03.04-1, 2.03.05-1, 2.03.07-1, 22.03.08-1
• RedHat Rgmanager: 2.03.03-1, 2.03.04-1, 2.03.05-1, 2.03.07-1, 2.03.08-1

References

• http://osvdb.org/50299
• http://osvdb.org/50300
• http://osvdb.org/50301
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1337.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32602
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32616
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36530
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36555
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43367
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43372
• http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00163.html
• http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00164.html

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