CVE-2011-0461

medium

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.

References

https://bugzilla.novell.com/665479

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-04-04

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024