Access Restriction Bypass Affecting logrotate package, versions <3.7.8-6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LOGROTATE-517535
  • published30 Mar 2011
  • disclosed30 Mar 2011

Introduced: 30 Mar 2011

CVE-2011-1548  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 logrotate to version 3.7.8-6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream logrotate package and not the logrotate package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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/.

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