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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 22, 2019· Updated Sep 16, 2024

SELinux initscript misuse of touch

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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