First published: Thu Oct 27 2005(Updated: )
chkstat in SuSE Linux 9.0 through 10.0 allows local users to modify permissions of files by creating a hardlink to a file from a world-writable directory, which can cause the link count to drop to 1 when the file is deleted or replaced, which is then modified by chkstat to use weaker permissions.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Suse Suse Linux | =9.3 | |
Suse Suse Linux | =9.2 | |
Suse Suse Linux | =9.1 | |
Suse Suse Linux | =9.0 | |
Suse Suse Linux | =9.3 | |
Suse Suse Linux | =9.0 | |
Novell Suse Linux | =10.0 | |
Suse Suse Linux | =9.1 | |
Suse Suse Linux | =9.2 |
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