Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in logrotate on SUSE openSUSE Factory

CVE-2011-1550 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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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