CVE-2011-1549

The default configuration of logrotate on Gentoo Linux 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...

CVE-2011-1549

Summary (CVE-2011-1549) : The issue concerns the default logrotate configuration on Gentoo Linux, which runs with root privileges to process files in directories that can be written by non-root users. This enables local attackers to perform symlink and hard-link attacks by exploiting logrotate’s ...