Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package keepalived  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-KEEPALIVED-649640
  • published2 Dec 2018
  • disclosed8 Nov 2018

Introduced: 8 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19046  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream keepalived package and not the keepalived package as distributed by Ubuntu.

keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for existing plain files when writing data to a temporary file upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats. If a local attacker had previously created a file with the expected name (e.g., /tmp/keepalived.data or /tmp/keepalived.stats), with read access for the attacker and write access for the keepalived process, then this potentially leaked sensitive information.