CVE-2009-1297: Novell Suse Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

iscsi_discovery in open-iscsi in SUSE openSUSE 10.3 through 11.1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 10 SP2 and 11, and other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file that has a predictable name.

Affected products

• Novell Suse Linux: version 10 only; version 11 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 10.3 only; version 11.1 only

Published 2009-10-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.