Security Advisory

CVE-2013-1956

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-04-24 19:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 15:20:37

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The create_user_ns function in kernel/user_namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 does not check whether a chroot directory exists that differs from the namespace root directory, which allows local users to bypass intended filesystem restrictions via a crafted clone system call.

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