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Tracker / CVE-2009-1072

CVE-2009-1072

Medium 4.9

nfsd in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.9 does not drop the CAP_MKNOD capability before handling a user request in a thread, which allows local users to create device nodes, as demonstrated on a filesystem that has been exported with the root_squash option.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.28.9
opensuse opensuse
suse linux_enterprise_desktop
suse linux_enterprise_server
vmware esx
vmware server
vmware vcenter_server
vmware virtualcenter
vmware vma

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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