Bug 722876 (CVE-2011-0460) - CVE-2011-0460 kbd: /etc/init.d/kbd dumps state to /dev/shm/defkeymap.map on shutdown
Summary: CVE-2011-0460 kbd: /etc/init.d/kbd dumps state to /dev/shm/defkeymap.map on s...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2011-0460
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2011-07-18 10:23 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-24 15:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-07-18 11:06:28 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-07-18 10:23:41 UTC 
It was found that the kbd init script wrote a file to /dev/shm during shut-down action. A local attacker could use this flaw to conduct symlink attacks (cause corruption of arbitrary system files).

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[1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663898
[2] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-04/msg00053.html
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-07-18 10:25:34 UTC 
This issue did NOT affect the versions of the kbd package, as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or 6.

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This issue did NOT affect the versions of the kbd package, as shipped with Fedora release of 14 and 15.
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-07-18 10:28:08 UTC 
Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of kbd as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or 6 as they do not include the affected script.
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