CVE-2011-1549
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 conduc…
Published: 2011-03-30 · CVSS: Unscored
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7