Security readout for executives and security teams
CVE-2004-0647 is an old Shorewall firewall issue where a local user could abuse temporary-file handling to overwrite files on the system. This matters mainly for legacy Linux firewall hosts that still run affected Shorewall versions and allow local user access. Likely exposure is limited to legacy systems running affected Shorewall versions, especially old firewall appliances, long-lived servers, or archived distro builds. Risk increases when non-administrative users have local shell or file-system access on the firewall host. Treat this as a targeted legacy-system cleanup item. It is not supported as actively exploited by the supplied sources, but affected firewall hosts with local users should be upgraded promptly because arbitrary file overwrite can undermine system integrity. Mitigation focus: Upgrade Shorewall beyond affected versions, including 2.0.3a or later for 2.0.x deployments.; Apply vendor or distribution security updates from Mandrake, Gentoo, or the relevant package maintainer.; Limit local user access on firewall hosts until affected versions are removed..
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- shorewall-symlink(16651)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
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