Bug 22835

Summary:	CVE-2009-3297: ncpmount/ncpumount privilege escalation
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Dmitry V. Levin <ldv>
Component:	ncpfs	Assignee:	Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3	CC:	php-coder
Version:	unstable	Keywords:	security
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-3297

Description

Dmitry V. Levin 2010-01-27 00:45:31 MSK

Daniel Rosenberg found race conditions in the ncpfs ncpmount and ncpumount utilities.  Local, unprivileged user could use these flaws to conduct symlink attacks, leading to denial of service (ncpumount), disclosure of sensitive information, or, possibly to privilege escalation (ncpmount).

Comment 1

Slava Semushin 2011-03-09 07:59:07 MSK

* Wed Mar 09 2011 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux> 2.2.6-alt9
- Imported fix of race conditions in ncpmount/ncpumount operations
 from Fedora (fixes CVE-2009-3297).