CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1940
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-04-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The RBAC functionality in grsecurity before 2.1.11-2.6.24.5 and 2.1.11-2.4.36.2 does not enforce user_transition_deny and user_transition_allow rules for the (1) sys_setfsuid and (2) sys_setfsgid calls, which allows local users to bypass restrictions for those calls.
Affected configurations
• grsecurity grsecurity kernel patch 2.4.33
• grsecurity grsecurity kernel patch 2.4.33.2
• grsecurity grsecurity kernel patch 2.4.33.3
• grsecurity grsecurity kernel patch 2.4.33.4
• grsecurity grsecurity kernel patch 2.4.34
• grsecurity grsecurity kernel patch 2.6.18
• grsecurity grsecurity kernel patch 2.6.24.4
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29899 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.grsecurity.org/news.php#grsec21113 www.grsecurity.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28889 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019919 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1323/references www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41952 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29899 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.grsecurity.org/news.php#grsec21113 www.grsecurity.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28889 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019919 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1323/references www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41952 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com