CVE-2003-0019

The CVE-2003-0019 issue affects the uml_net utility in Red Hat Linux 8.0’s kernel-utils package, shipped with incorrect setuid root permissions. This allows local users to modify network interfaces, including ARP entry manipulation and placing interfaces into promiscuous mode. Root cause: the uml...

kernel-utils sets insecure permissions on "uml_net" utility

Overview The umlnet utility, part of the kernel-utils package in Red Hat Linux 8.0, was shipped with incorrect permissions. Description User-Mode Linux UML is a tool to provide a virtual machine in which to run another copy of Linux. In Red Hat linux 8.0, the kernel-utils package contains the UML...