CVE-2011-3351

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-3351
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-25 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-12-11 18:39:00 UTC
Descriptionopenvas-scanner before 2011-09-11 creates a temporary file insecurely when generating OVAL system characteristics document with the ovaldi integrated tool enabled. A local attacker could use this flaw to conduct symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on the system.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openvas Openvas-scanner All All All All
Application Openvas Openvas-scanner All All All All

References

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Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com Broken Link
Bug 716367 – VUL-1: CVE-2011-3351: openvas-scanner: Insecure temporary file use MISC bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2011-3351 MISC security-tracker.debian.org Third Party Advisory
736317 – (CVE-2011-3351) CVE-2011-3351 openvas-scanner: Insecure temporary file use by generation of an OVAL system characteristics document, when ovaldi support enabled MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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