CVE-2011-1549

Impact

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/27
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/29
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/30
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/31
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/32
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/33
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/4
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/6
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/8
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/3
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/4
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/5
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/6
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/11
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/5
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/6