CVE-2013-1858
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 5, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 19, 2013
Description
The clone system-call implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.8.3 does not properly handle a combination of the CLONE_NEWUSER and CLONE_FS flags, which allows local users to gain privileges by calling chroot and leveraging the sharing of the / directory between a parent process and a child process.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e66eded8309ebf679d3d3c1f5820d1f2ca332c71
- [oss-security] 20130314 Re: CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_FS root exploitmailing-list
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.3
- http://stealth.openwall.net/xSports/clown-newuser.c
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e66eded8309ebf679d3d3c1f5820d1f2ca332c71
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921448
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