SB2011040403 - Link following in Novell Opensuse
Published: April 4, 2011 Updated: August 11, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2011040403
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2011-0461)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to #BASIC_IMPACT#.
/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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00007.html
- http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0461.html
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/665479