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Medium · 5.2 CVE-2011-3151 EUVD-2011-3118GHSA-3wp7-vqr4-g72h

SELinux initscript misuse of touch

Published Apr 22, 2019 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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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