medium5.2
CVE-2011-3151
The Ubuntu SELinux initscript before version 1:0.10 used touch to create a lockfile in a world-writable directory.
Impact
The Ubuntu SELinux initscript before version 1:0.10 used touch to create a lockfile in a world-writable directory. If the OS kernel does not have symlink protections then an attacker can cause a zero byte file to be allocated on any writable filesystem.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Canonical | Selinux | before 1\:0.10 |