FKIE_CVE-2011-1549
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2011-03-30 22:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:29
Severity
Summary
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.
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