Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-0461

Title: Opensuse

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-0461.

CWE Category CWE-59
Published Date Apr 04, 2011
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.02%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-0461: /etc/init.d/boot.localfs in the aaa_base package before 11.2-43.48.1 in SUSE openSUSE 11.2, and before 11.3-8.7.1 in openSUSE 11.3, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /dev/shm/mtab.

Impacted Vendors

S
suse 1
O
opensuse 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00007.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0461.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/665479 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00007.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0461.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/665479
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-0461 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.