CVE-2009-4664

N/A Unknown

Published: March 03, 2010 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://blog.fwbuilder.org/2009/09/firewall-builder-v307-released.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035112.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://osvdb.org/58247

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/36809

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.fwbuilder.org/docs/firewall_builder_release_notes.html#3.0.7

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36468

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0389

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524588

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53392

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://blog.fwbuilder.org/2009/09/firewall-builder-v307-released.html