CVE-2009-1297

Summary

CVECVE-2009-1297
StatePUBLISHED
Assignercanonical
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-10-23 18:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
Descriptioniscsi_discovery in open-iscsi in SUSE openSUSE 10.3 through 11.1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 10 SP2 and 11, and other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file that has a predictable name.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.4 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-59 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Novell Suse Linux 10 sp2 enterprise All
Operating System Novell Suse Linux 11 - enterprise All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 10.3 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 11.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0241 - Mageia wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.mageia.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2013:109 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2009:016 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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