Gentoo: GLSA-200407-17 High: Systemd DoS and Permission Issues
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July 22, 2004
Multiple permission vulnerabilities have been found in the Linux kernel, allowing an attacker to change the group IDs of files mounted on a remote filesystem (CAN-2004-0497), as we...
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200407-16
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: Linux Kernel: Multiple DoS and permission vulnerabilities
Date: July 22, 2004
Bugs: #56171, #56479
ID: 200407-16
Synopsis
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Multiple permission vulnerabilities have been found in the Linux
kernel, allowing an attacker to change the group IDs of files mounted
on a remote filesystem (CAN-2004-0497), as well as an issue in 2.6
series kernels which allows /proc permissions to be bypassed.
A context sharing vulnerability in vserver-sources is also handled by
this advisory as well as CAN-2004-0447, CAN-2004-0496 and
CAN-2004-0565. Patched, or updated versions of these kernels have been
released and details are included along with this advisory.
Background
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The Linux kernel is responsible for managing the core aspects of a
GNU/Linux system, providing an interface for core system...
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