CVE-2011-0461 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2011-0461?

CVE-2011-0461 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 1 Apr 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

/etc/init.d/boot.localfs in the aaa_base package before 11.2-43.48.1 in SUSE openSUSE 11.2, and before 11.3-8.7.1 in openSUSE 11.3, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /dev/shm/mtab.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-0461?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2011-0461?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2011-0461 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-0461 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Opensuse

• CVE-2015-5957 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2015-0491 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2008-2388 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-1866 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-0492 Other in n/a Critical 9.3

All Opensuse Opensuse vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-gf29-xw53-r4vv, openSUSE-SU-2024:10094-1.