CVE-2011-0461

N/A Unknown

Published: April 04, 2011 Modified: April 29, 2026

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00007.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0461.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugzilla.novell.com/665479

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html