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Tracker / CVE-2013-1957

CVE-2013-1957

Medium 4.7

The clone_mnt function in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 does not properly restrict changes to the MNT_READONLY flag, which allows local users to bypass an intended read-only property of a filesystem by leveraging a separate mount namespace.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.8.5

Analysis

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