Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package logrotate  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LOGROTATE-603736
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed30 Mar 2011

Introduced: 30 Mar 2011

CVE-2011-1549  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream logrotate package and not the logrotate package as distributed by Debian.

The default configuration of logrotate on Gentoo 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 directories under /var/log/ for packages.

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