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Tracker / CVE-2016-1575

CVE-2016-1575

High 7.8

The overlayfs implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 does not properly maintain POSIX ACL xattr data, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a group-writable setgid directory.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_core
canonical ubuntu_linux
canonical ubuntu_touch
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.5.2

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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