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CVE-2011-0461

/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.

Published

2011-04-04T12:27:36.530

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.3 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

3.4

Impact Score

9.2

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-59

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	opensuse	opensuse	11.2	Yes
Operating System	opensuse	opensuse	11.3	Yes

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00007.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0461.html ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.novell.com/665479 ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00007.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0461.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/665479 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)