CVE-2009-1297 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

44%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

106%

iscsi_discovery in open-iscsi in SUSE openSUSE 10.3 through 11.1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 10 SP2 and 11, and other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file that has a predictable name.

iscsi_discovery in open-iscsi in SUSE openSUSE 10.3 through 11.1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 10 SP2 and 11, and other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file that has a predictable name.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.4. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

OpenSUSE

First reported 15 years ago

2009-10-23 18:30:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

OpenSUSE 10.3

10.3

OpenSUSE 11.1

11.1

References

SUSE-SR:2009:016

Vendor Advisory

MDVSA-2013:109

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0241

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