Description
check_smart before 6.9.1 allows unintended drive access by an unprivileged user because it only checks for a substring match of a device path (the /dev/bus substring and a number), aka an unanchored regular expression.
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
- https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/monitoring-plugins/check_smart.php ↗
- https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/1068/check_smart-6.9.1-security-fix-release-pseudo-device-path ↗
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183057 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/14/2 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42257 ↗