CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-6733
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-03-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The nfs_lock function in fs/nfs/file.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.9 does not properly remove POSIX locks on files that are setgid without group-execute permission, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) by locking a file on an NFS filesystem and then changing this file's permissions, a related issue to CVE-2010-0727.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 2.6.9
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0304.html rhn.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218777 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570863 Exploit
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0304.html rhn.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218777 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570863 Exploit