CVE-2005-3321: Novell Suse Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Novell Suse Linux: version 10.0 only
• Suse Suse Linux: version 9.0 only; version 9.1 only; version 9.2 only; version 9.3 only

Published 2005-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.