CVE-2014-4014
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 23, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 9, 2014
Description
The capabilities implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.8 does not properly consider that namespaces are inapplicable to inodes, which allows local users to bypass intended chmod restrictions by first creating a user namespace, as demonstrated by setting the setgid bit on a file with group ownership of root.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 67988vdb-entry
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html
- 1030394vdb-entry
- 33824exploit
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.14.8
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/23adbe12ef7d3d4195e80800ab36b37bee28cd03
- 59220third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107966
- [oss-security] 20140610 CVE-2014-4014: Linux kernel user namespace bugmailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=23adbe12ef7d3d4195e80800ab36b37bee28cd03
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