Medium severity5.2NVD Advisory· Published Apr 22, 2019· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2011-3151
CVE-2011-3151
Description
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.
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References
1- launchpadlibrarian.net/88098106/selinux_0.10~10.04.1.debdiffnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
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