CVE-2013-1959
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 3, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 19, 2013
Description
kernel/user_namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9 does not have appropriate capability requirements for the uid_map and gid_map files, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening a file within an unprivileged process and then modifying the file within a privileged process.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e3211c120a85b792978bcb4be7b2886df18d27f0
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6708075f104c3c9b04b23336bb0366ca30c3931b
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6708075f104c3c9b04b23336bb0366ca30c3931b
- [oss-security] 20130428 Multiple Linux setuid output redirection vulnerabilitiesmailing-list
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.9
- 25307exploit
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e3211c120a85b792978bcb4be7b2886df18d27f0
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