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logrotate: symlink and hard link attacks

Package(s):logrotate CVE #(s):CVE-2011-1548
Created:July 21, 2011 Updated:July 27, 2011
Description: From the CVE entry:

The default configuration of logrotate on Debian GNU/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 /var/log/postgresql/.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1172-1 2011-07-21

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