CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-8989
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-11-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- 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 Linux kernel through 3.17.4 does not properly restrict dropping of supplemental group memberships in certain namespace scenarios, which allows local users to bypass intended file permissions by leveraging a POSIX ACL containing an entry for the group category that is more restrictive than the entry for the other category, aka a "negative groups" issue, related to kernel/groups.c, kernel/uid16.c, and kernel/user_namespace.c.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.17.3)
• 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 114 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147864.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147973.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/7385/ Exploit
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:058 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/20/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71154 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2515-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2516-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2517-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2518-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147864.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147973.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/7385/ Exploit
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:058 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/20/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71154 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2515-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2516-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2517-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2518-1 www.ubuntu.com