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Bug#496410: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages



Hi,
the following two additional CVE ids have been assigned to 
symlink issues in cman & redhat-cluster:
CVE-2008-4579[0]:
| The (1) fence_apc and (2) fence_apc_snmp programs, as used in (a)
| fence 2.02.00-r1 and possibly (b) cman, when running in verbose mode,
| allows local users to append to arbitrary files via a symlink attack
| on the apclog temporary file.

CVE-2008-4580[1]:
| fence_manual in fence allows local users to modify arbitrary files via
| a symlink attack on the fence_manual.fifo temporary file.

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4579
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-4579
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4580
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-4580

Cheers
Nico

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