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openSUSE Security Update : aaa_base (openSUSE-SU-2011:0171-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53691

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The boot.localfs init script wrote a file to /dev/shm during shut-down. Since local users may create symlinks there a malicious user could cause corruption of arbitrary files (CVE-2011-0461).

Solution

Update the affected aaa_base package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665479

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53691

File Name: suse_11_2_aaa_base-110202.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/5/2011

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:aaa_base

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 2/2/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0461