Access Restriction Bypass Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.33.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004737
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Jan 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jan 2010

CVE-2010-0007  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.33.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c in the ebtables module in the netfilter framework in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33-rc4 does not require the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for setting or modifying rules, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and configure arbitrary network-traffic filtering via a modified ebtables application.

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