Access Restriction Bypass Affecting freebsd package, versions [8.0,9.2]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2383170
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Sept 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Sep 2013

CVE-2013-5710  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for freebsd.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The nullfs implementation in sys/fs/nullfs/null_vnops.c in the kernel in FreeBSD 8.3 through 9.2 allows local users with certain permissions to bypass access restrictions via a hardlink in a nullfs instance to a file in a different instance.

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