debian · CVE-2011-1549

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:58:39 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2011-1549 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (logrotate), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

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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