CVE-2011-2533
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
3.3
Description
The configure script in D-Bus (aka DBus) 1.2.x before 1.2.28 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified file in /tmp/.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.3.2~git20100715.821f99c-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.3.2~git20100715.821f99c-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.3.2~git20100715.821f99c-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.3.2~git20100715.821f99c-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.3.2~git20100715.821f99c-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.2.1 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.2.3 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.2.4 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.2.6 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.2.8 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.2.10 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.2.12 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.2.14 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.2.16 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.2.18 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.2.20 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.2.22 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.2.24 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.2.26 | |
References
CWEs
CWE-59
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.