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SuSE Linux is a freely available, open source operating system. It is maintained by SuSE. A user could create a deeply nested directory structure that would be descended by the recursive rm command, executed by the aaa_base_clean_core script daily. Upon descent into this directory tree, a user could move the current working directory of the process higher in the directory structure, causing the rm process to ascend higher than intended and remove system files, including the root directory.

SuSE Linux is a freely available, open source operating system. It is maintained by SuSE. A user could create a deeply nested directory structure that would be descended by the recursive rm command, executed by the aaa_base_clean_core script daily. Upon descent into this directory tree, a user could move the current working directory of the process higher in the directory structure, causing the rm process to ascend higher than intended and remove system files, including the root directory.