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CVE-2011-1548 (GCVE-0-2011-1548)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-03-30 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:28
VLAI
Summary
The default configuration of logrotate on Debian GNU/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 /var/log/postgresql/.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/30 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/5 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/5 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/31 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/29 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/4 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/11 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/11 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/5 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47167 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/7 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/8 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/5 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/27 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/32 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/26 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/4 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606544 x_refsource_MISC
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/33 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2011-03-04 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.