CVE-2012-1088
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
3.3
VIR risk
3.3
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=20ed7b24df05eadf83168d1d0ce0052a31380928
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e557d1ac3a156ba7521ba44b0b412af4542f83f8
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797878
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=20ed7b24df05eadf83168d1d0ce0052a31380928
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e557d1ac3a156ba7521ba44b0b412af4542f83f8
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797878
CWEs
CWE-59
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.