CVE-2011-0461 Information

Description

/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.

Reference

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