CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-3151

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2019-04-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-04-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-693

Description

The Ubuntu SELinux initscript before version 1:0.10 used touch to create a lockfile in a world-writable directory. If the OS kernel does not have symlink protections then an attacker can cause a zero byte file to be allocated on any writable filesystem.

Affected configurations

• canonical selinux (< 1\:0.10)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure weakness

References