Link Following Affecting fwbuilder package, versions <3.0.7-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-FWBUILDER-281157
  • published3 Mar 2010
  • disclosed3 Mar 2010

Introduced: 3 Mar 2010

CVE-2009-4664  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 fwbuilder to version 3.0.7-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream fwbuilder package and not the fwbuilder package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Firewall Builder 3.0.4, 3.0.5, and 3.0.6, when running on Linux, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file that is created by the iptables script.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1