Summary
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory GLSA 200502-01.
Solution
All FireHOL users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-firewall/firehol-1.224'
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200502-01 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79330
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/firehol/firehol/firehol.sh
Insight
FireHOL is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-0225 -
CVSS Base Score: 2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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