Description
The inotify functionality in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.28-rc5 might allow local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors related to race conditions in inotify watch removal and umount.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32998 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10584 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33706 ↗
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2915 ↗
- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc5 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33641 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33503 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33756 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01358.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33348 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33623 ↗
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33083 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/ ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33854 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33704 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00010.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00006.html ↗