keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for pathnames with symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local users to overwrite arbitrary files if fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-11-08T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:30:03.571Z

Reserved: 2018-11-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-19044

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-11-08T20:29:00.323

Modified: 2019-08-06T17:15:32.430

Link: CVE-2018-19044

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-11-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-19044 - Bugzilla