USN-5745-1 shadow vulnerability

Florian Weimer discovered that shadow was not properly copying and removing user directory trees, which could lead to a race condition. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to setup a symlink attack and alter or remove directories without authorization...

Information disclosure

utils/mount.ecryptfsprivate.c in ecryptfs-utils before 90 does not properly check mountpoint permissions, which allows local users to remove directories via a umount system call...

CVE-2011-1832: Undefined Security Weakness

utils/mount.ecryptfsprivate.c in ecryptfs-utils before 90 does not properly check mountpoint permissions, which allows local users to remove directories via a umount system call...

kernel: filesystem corruption by unprivileged user via directory truncation

VFS in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22.16, and 2.6.23.x before 2.6.23.14, performs tests of access mode by using the flag variable instead of the accmode variable, which might allow local users to bypass intended permissions and remove directories...

CVE-2008-0001: Undefined Security Weakness

VFS in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22.16, and 2.6.23.x before 2.6.23.14, performs tests of access mode by using the flag variable instead of the accmode variable, which might allow local users to bypass intended permissions and remove directories...