CVE-2011-3151

SELinux initscript misuse of touch

Medium · published April 22, 2019

CVSS v3.0
5.2
EPSS
1%
Percentile
47.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.2 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00601 · 47.8th percentile
Published
2019-04-22T15:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 APR 15:35Z
    SELinux initscript misuse of touch
    cvelistv5