CVE-2011-1549
N/A
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:29 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorLogrotateLinux
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (35)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264
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