CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1959
3.7 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-05-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.7 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
kernel/user_namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9 does not have appropriate capability requirements for the uid_map and gid_map files, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening a file within an unprivileged process and then modifying the file within a privileged process.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.8.8)
• linux linux kernel 3.0
• linux linux kernel 3.0.1
• linux linux kernel 3.0.2
• linux linux kernel 3.0.3
• linux linux kernel 3.0.4
• linux linux kernel 3.0.5
• linux linux kernel 3.0.6
• linux linux kernel 3.0.7
• linux linux kernel 3.0.8
• linux linux kernel 3.0.9
• linux linux kernel 3.0.10
• linux linux kernel 3.0.11
• linux linux kernel 3.0.12
• linux linux kernel 3.0.13
• linux linux kernel 3.0.14
• linux linux kernel 3.0.15
• linux linux kernel 3.0.16
• linux linux kernel 3.0.17
• linux linux kernel 3.0.18
• linux linux kernel 3.0.19
• linux linux kernel 3.0.20
• linux linux kernel 3.0.21
• linux linux kernel 3.0.22
• linux linux kernel 3.0.23
• linux linux kernel 3.0.24
• linux linux kernel 3.0.25
• linux linux kernel 3.0.26
• linux linux kernel 3.0.27
• linux linux kernel 3.0.28
• linux linux kernel 3.0.29
• linux linux kernel 3.0.30
• linux linux kernel 3.0.31
• linux linux kernel 3.0.32
• linux linux kernel 3.0.33
• linux linux kernel 3.0.34
• linux linux kernel 3.0.35
• linux linux kernel 3.0.36
• linux linux kernel 3.0.37
• linux linux kernel 3.0.38
• linux linux kernel 3.0.39
• linux linux kernel 3.0.40
• linux linux kernel 3.0.41
• linux linux kernel 3.0.42
• linux linux kernel 3.0.43
• linux linux kernel 3.0.44
• linux linux kernel 3.0.45
• linux linux kernel 3.0.46
• linux linux kernel 3.0.47
• linux linux kernel 3.0.48
• linux linux kernel 3.0.49
• linux linux kernel 3.0.50
• linux linux kernel 3.0.51
• linux linux kernel 3.0.52
• linux linux kernel 3.0.53
• linux linux kernel 3.0.54
• linux linux kernel 3.0.55
• linux linux kernel 3.0.56
• linux linux kernel 3.0.57
• linux linux kernel 3.0.58
… and 132 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6708075f104c3c9b04b23336bb0366ca30c3931b git.kernel.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e3211c120a85b792978bcb4be7b2886df18d27f0 git.kernel.org
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25307 www.exploit-db.com
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.9 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/29/1 Exploit
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6708075f104c3c9b04b23336bb0366ca30c3931b github.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e3211c120a85b792978bcb4be7b2886df18d27f0 github.com
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6708075f104c3c9b04b23336bb0366ca30c3931b git.kernel.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e3211c120a85b792978bcb4be7b2886df18d27f0 git.kernel.org
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25307 www.exploit-db.com
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.9 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/29/1 Exploit
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6708075f104c3c9b04b23336bb0366ca30c3931b github.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e3211c120a85b792978bcb4be7b2886df18d27f0 github.com