CVE-2011-0461

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions aaa base versions prior to 11.2-43.48.1 in SUSE openSUSE 11.2 aaa base versions prior to 11.3-8.7.1 in openSUSE 11.3

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /dev/shm/mtab. This is due to a flaw in the /etc/init.d/boot.localfs script in the aaa base package.

Recommendations For aaa base versions prior to 11.2-43.48.1 in SUSE openSUSE 11.2, update to version 11.2-43.48.1 or later. For aaa base versions prior to 11.3-8.7.1 in openSUSE 11.3, update to version 11.3-8.7.1 or later.