Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack in Debian Apache2 Package

CVE-2013-1048 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The Debian apache2ctl script in the apache2 package squeeze before 2.2.16-6+squeeze11, wheezy before 2.2.22-13, and sid before 2.2.22-13 for the Apache HTTP Server on Debian GNU/Linux does not properly create the /var/lock/apache2 lock directory, which allows local users to gain privileges via an unspecified symlink attack.

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