Link following in Opensuse - CVE-2011-0461
Published: April 4, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU45148
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-0461
CWE-ID: CWE-59
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: SUSE
Affected software:
Opensuse
Opensuse
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2011-0461
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- 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