CVE-2018-19044

Name	CVE-2018-19044
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
keepalived (PTS)	bullseye	1:2.1.5-0.2+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm	1:2.2.7-1	fixed
	sid, trixie	1:2.3.2-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
keepalived	source	(unstable)	1:2.0.10-1	unimportant

Notes

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015141
https://github.com/acassen/keepalived/commit/04f2d32871bb3b11d7dc024039952f2fe2750306
https://github.com/acassen/keepalived/issues/1048