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CVE-2011-1549

The default configuration of logrotate on Gentoo Linux uses root privileges to process files in directories that permit non-root write acces

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Summary

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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