Local Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack in kbd init script

Local Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack in kbd init script

CVE-2011-0460 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The init script in kbd, possibly 1.14.1 and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /dev/shm/defkeymap.map.

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