CVE-2009-1297

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-10-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

iscsi_discovery in open-iscsi in SUSE openSUSE 10.3 through 11.1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 10 SP2 and 11, and other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file that has a predictable name.

Affected products

Novell Suse Linux: 10-sp2, 11
Opensuse: 10.3, 11.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00001.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:109
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0241
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00001.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:109
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0241

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