Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libcap2  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBCAP2-650381
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed8 Feb 2014

Introduced: 8 Feb 2014

CVE-2011-4099  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcap2 package and not the libcap2 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The capsh program in libcap before 2.22 does not change the current working directory when the --chroot option is specified, which allows local users to bypass the chroot restrictions via unspecified vectors.