CVE-2008-4579

CVE-2008-4579 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the fence_apc and fence_apc_snmp programs in Gentoo's fence 2.02.00-r1 and potentially cman, when operating in verbose mode. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on the apclog temporary file, allowing them to append data to arbitrary files. With a CVSS score of 1.9, this vulnerability is considered low severity, requiring local access and medium attack complexity, with a potential impact limited to modifying files. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.