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CVE-2013-1959

by Fred · 03/05/2013

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.

Date published : 2013-05-03

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6708075f104c3c9b04b23336bb0366ca30c3931b

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e3211c120a85b792978bcb4be7b2886df18d27f0

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