FKIE_CVE-2014-0039

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-02-08 00:55 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:02
Severity
Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in fwsnort before 1.6.4, when not running as root, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse fwsnort.conf in the current working directory.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128188.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128205.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://osvdb.org/102822
secalert@redhat.comhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/221
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65341
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/mrash/fwsnort/blob/master/ChangeLog
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/mrash/fwsnort/commit/fa977453120cc48e1654f373311f9cac468d3348Exploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128188.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128205.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/102822
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/221
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65341
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/mrash/fwsnort/blob/master/ChangeLog
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/mrash/fwsnort/commit/fa977453120cc48e1654f373311f9cac468d3348Exploit, Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
cipherdyne fwsnort *
cipherdyne fwsnort 0.5
cipherdyne fwsnort 0.6
cipherdyne fwsnort 0.6.1
cipherdyne fwsnort 0.6.2
cipherdyne fwsnort 0.6.3
cipherdyne fwsnort 0.6.4
cipherdyne fwsnort 0.6.5
cipherdyne fwsnort 0.7.0
cipherdyne fwsnort 0.8.0
cipherdyne fwsnort 0.8.1
cipherdyne fwsnort 0.8.2
cipherdyne fwsnort 0.9.0
cipherdyne fwsnort 1.0
cipherdyne fwsnort 1.0.1
cipherdyne fwsnort 1.0.2
cipherdyne fwsnort 1.0.3
cipherdyne fwsnort 1.0.4
cipherdyne fwsnort 1.0.5
cipherdyne fwsnort 1.0.6
cipherdyne fwsnort 1.5
cipherdyne fwsnort 1.6
cipherdyne fwsnort 1.6.1
cipherdyne fwsnort 1.6.2
cipherdyne fwsnort 1.6.3
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