The default configuration of logrotate on Gentoo Linux uses root privileges to process files in directories that permit non-root write access, which allows local users to conduct symlink and hard link attacks by leveraging logrotates lack of support for untrusted directories, as demonstrated by directories under /var/log/ for packages.
Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
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Logrotate | Gentoo | * | * |