Link following in dbus - CVE-2011-2533

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Link following in dbus - CVE-2011-2533

Published: June 23, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU44928
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-2533
CWE-ID: CWE-59
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Freedesktop.org
Affected software:
dbus

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate or delete data.

The configure script in D-Bus (aka DBus) 1.2.x before 1.2.28 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified file in /tmp/.


How to mitigate CVE-2011-2533

Install update from vendor's website.

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