CVE-2011-0461 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

63%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

153%

/etc/init.d/boot.localfs in the aaa_base package before 11.2-43.48.1 in SUSE openSUSE 11.2, and before 11.3-8.7.1 in openSUSE 11.3, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /dev/shm/mtab.

/etc/init.d/boot.localfs in the aaa_base package before 11.2-43.48.1 in SUSE openSUSE 11.2, and before 11.3-8.7.1 in openSUSE 11.3, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /dev/shm/mtab.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.3. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

OpenSUSE

First reported 13 years ago

2011-04-04 12:27:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

OpenSUSE 11.2

11.2

OpenSUSE 11.3

11.3

References

SUSE-SR:2011:005

SUSE-SR:2011:009

[opensuse-updates] 20110314 openSUSE-SU-2011:0171-1 (moderate): aaa_base security update

Vendor Advisory

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0461.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/665479

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