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.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4664
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524588
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53392
• http://blog.fwbuilder.org/2009/09/firewall-builder-v307-released.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035112.html
• http://osvdb.org/58247
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36809
• http://www.fwbuilder.org/docs/firewall_builder_release_notes.html#3.0.7
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36468
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0389