CVE-2011-0461
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.3EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
/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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (22th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-0481)
- Published
- April 4, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-0481 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00007.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0461.html
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/665479
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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