PT-2011-2363 · Suse · Aaa Base

Published 2011-04-01 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2011-0461

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions aaa base versions prior to 11.2-43.48.1 in SUSE openSUSE 11.2 aaa base versions prior to 11.3-8.7.1 in openSUSE 11.3

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /dev/shm/mtab. This is due to a flaw in the /etc/init.d/boot.localfs script in the aaa base package.

Recommendations For aaa base versions prior to 11.2-43.48.1 in SUSE openSUSE 11.2, update to version 11.2-43.48.1 or later. For aaa base versions prior to 11.3-8.7.1 in openSUSE 11.3, update to version 11.3-8.7.1 or later.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-0461

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10094-1

Affected Products

Aaa Base

References · 8

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00007.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0461 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10094-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0461.html · Note
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/665479 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0461 · Note