CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-4014
6.2 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-06-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.2 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The capabilities implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.8 does not properly consider that namespaces are inapplicable to inodes, which allows local users to bypass intended chmod restrictions by first creating a user namespace, as demonstrated by setting the setgid bit on a file with group ownership of root.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.14.8)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=23adbe12ef7d3d4195e80800ab36b37bee28cd03 git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59220 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33824 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.14.8 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/10/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67988 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030394 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107966 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/23adbe12ef7d3d4195e80800ab36b37bee28cd03 Third Party Advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=23adbe12ef7d3d4195e80800ab36b37bee28cd03 git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59220 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33824 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.14.8 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/10/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67988 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030394 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107966 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/23adbe12ef7d3d4195e80800ab36b37bee28cd03 Third Party Advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html Third Party Advisory