Access Restriction Bypass Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.0.45)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004680
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Oct 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Oct 2012

CVE-2011-1833  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.0.45 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Race condition in the ecryptfs_mount function in fs/ecryptfs/main.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to bypass intended file permissions via a mount.ecryptfs_private mount with a mismatched uid.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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