Security Advisory

CVE-2009-1072

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-03-25 01:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 04:57:17

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

nfsd in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.9 does not drop the CAP_MKNOD capability before handling a user request in a thread, which allows local users to create device nodes, as demonstrated on a filesystem that has been exported with the root_squash option.

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