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CVE-2013-1959

Published: May 3, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e3211c120a85b792978bcb4be7b2886df18d27f0

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6708075f104c3c9b04b23336bb0366ca30c3931b

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6708075f104c3c9b04b23336bb0366ca30c3931b

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[oss-security] 20130428 Multiple Linux setuid output redirection vulnerabilities

mailing-list

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.9

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exploit

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e3211c120a85b792978bcb4be7b2886df18d27f0

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