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kbd: arbitrary file corruption

Package(s):kbd CVE #(s):CVE-2011-0460
Created:April 18, 2011 Updated:April 20, 2011
Description: From the openSUSE advisory:

The kbd init scripted wrote a file to /dev/shm during shut-down. Since local users may create symlinks there a malicious user could cause corruption of arbitrary files

Alerts:
SUSE SUSE-SR:2011:007 NetworkManager, OpenOffice_org, apache2-slms, dbus-1-glib, dhcp/dhcpcd/dhcp6, freetype2, kbd, krb5, libcgroup, libmodplug, libvirt, mailman, moonlight-plugin, nbd, openldap2, pure-ftpd, python-feedparser, rsyslog, telepathy-gabble, wireshark 2011-04-19
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0357-1 kbd 2011-04-18

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