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CVE-2011-3151

SELinux initscript misuse of touch

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Summary

The Ubuntu SELinux initscript before version 1:0.10 used touch to create a lockfile in a world-writable directory. If the OS kernel does not have symlink protections then an attacker can cause a zero byte file to be allocated on any writable filesystem.

Timeline

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Affected versions

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