Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Logrotate on Gentoo Linux

CVE-2011-1549 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The default configuration of logrotate on Gentoo Linux 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 under /var/log/ for packages.

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