CVE-2011-4028 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The LockServer function in os/utils.c in X.Org xserver before 1.11.2 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary lock file, which is handled differently if the file exists.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00114.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Redhat	Enterprise Linux
X.org	X Server

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x_server:1.11.0:::::::*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
xorg-x11-server-0:1.1.1-48.90.el5	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5	RHSA-2012:0303	2012-02-21T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
xorg-x11-server-0:1.10.6-1.el6	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6	RHSA-2012:0939	2012-06-19T00:00:00Z

No data.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=6ba44b91e37622ef8c146d8f2ac92d708a18ed34
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2011-October/001744.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2011-October/053680.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0939.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/46460
http://secunia.com/advisories/49579
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4028
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-4028

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00025}`	epss `{'score': 0.00114}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2012-07-03T19:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T18:54:10.506Z

Reserved: 2011-10-09T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2011-4028

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-07-03T19:55:01.757

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2011-4028

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2011-10-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-4028 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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