Security Advisory

CVE-2011-3151

5.2
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date April 22, 2019
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory