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Tracker / CVE-2016-2853

CVE-2016-2853

High 7.8

The aufs module for the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x does not properly restrict the mount namespace, which allows local users to gain privileges by mounting an aufs filesystem on top of a FUSE filesystem, and then executing a crafted setuid program.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 3.0.0 → 3.19.8
linux linux_kernel · 4.0.0 → 4.20.15

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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