CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-0461
6.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-04-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.3 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
/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.
Affected configurations
• opensuse opensuse 11.2
• opensuse opensuse 11.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00007.html Vendor Advisory
- http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0461.html support.novell.com
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/665479 bugzilla.novell.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00007.html Vendor Advisory
- http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0461.html support.novell.com
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/665479 bugzilla.novell.com