CVE-2005-3321

CVE-2005-3321

CVE-2005-3321 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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