The default configuration of logrotate on SUSE openSUSE Factory uses root privileges to process files in directories that permit non-root write access, which allows local users to conduct symlink and hard link attacks by leveraging logrotate's lack of support for untrusted directories, as demonstrated by directories for the (1) cobbler, (2) inn, (3) safte-monitor, and (4) uucp packages.
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History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2011-03-30T22:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:37:56.047Z

Reserved: 2011-03-30T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2011-1550

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-03-30T22:55:02.707

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:26:34.337

Link: CVE-2011-1550

cve-icon Redhat

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