Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability in boot.localfs

CVE-2011-0461 · MEDIUM Severity

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

/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.

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