CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-1337

7.2 HIGH Published 2004-12-23 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-12-23
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The POSIX Capability Linux Security Module (LSM) for Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly handle the credentials of a process that is launched before the module is loaded, which allows local users to gain privileges.

Affected configurations

• gnu realtime linux security module 0.8.7 • conectiva linux 10.0 • ubuntu ubuntu linux 4.1

References