Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 30, 2011· Updated Apr 29, 2026
CVE-2011-1550
CVE-2011-1550
Description
The default configuration of logrotate on SUSE openSUSE Factory 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 for the (1) cobbler, (2) inn, (3) safte-monitor, and (4) uucp packages.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
34- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/27nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/29nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/30nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/31nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/32nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/33nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/4nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/6nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/8nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/3nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/4nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/5nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/6nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/11nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/5nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/6nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/5nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/2nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/3nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/6nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/7nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/3nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/5nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/26nvd
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/11nvd
News mentions
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