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CVE-2011-0461

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 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: 2011-04-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

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.

Affected products

• Opensuse: 11.2, 11.3

References

• 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

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