CVE-2013-1957

Publication date

2013-04-24 19:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The clone_mnt function in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 does not properly restrict changes to the MNT_READONLY flag, which allows local users to bypass an intended read-only property of a filesystem by leveraging a separate mount namespace.