SUSE CVE-2013-1858

The clone system-call implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.8.3 does not properly handle a combination of the CLONENEWUSER and CLONEFS flags, which allows local users to gain privileges by calling chroot and leveraging the sharing of the / directory between a parent process and a child...

FreeBSD-SA-04:01.mksnap_ffs

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-04:01.mksnapffs Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: mksnapffs clears file system options Category: core Module: mksnapffs Announced: 2004-01-30 Credits:...

mksnap_ffs clears file system options

The kernel interface for creating a snapshot of a filesystem is the same as that for changing the flags on that filesystem. Due to an oversight, the mksnapffs8 command called that interface with only the snapshot flag set, causing all other flags to be reset to the default value. A regularly...