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util-linux umount "-r" Re-Mounting Security Issue
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16785
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Release Date:
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2005-09-13
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Last Update:
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2005-09-15
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | util-linux 2.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2005-2876 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
David Watson has reported a security issue in util-linux, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The problem is that non-root users can call umount with the "-r" flag on user-mountable volumes. This can be exploited to cause a user-mountable volume to be re-mounted read-only and cause the nosuid, noexec, and nodev flags to be cleared.
This can further be exploited to call a setuid binary on the user-mountable volume.
Successful exploitation requires privileges to unmount a user-mountable file system.
The security issue has been reported in versions 2.8 through 2.12q, 2.13-pre1, and 2.13-pre2.
Solution:
The security issue has been fixed in version 2.12r-pre1 and 2.13-pre3.
Provided and/or discovered by:
David Watson
Changelog:
2005-09-15: Added CVE reference.
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1 Related Secunia Security Advisories
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1. util-linux Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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