CVE-2011-3351

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 25, 2019
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Aug 30, 2011

Description

openvas-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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
openvas-scanneropenvas-scanner	through 2011-09-11Affected

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3351
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3351

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