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Ubuntu Security Notice 793-1 Critical: NFS Escalation Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 2, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-794-1 tackles severe vulnerabilities impacting various Ubuntu releases.
Igor Zhbanov discovered that NFS clients were able to create device nodeseven when root_squash was enabled

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security advisory critical privilege escalation Ubuntu linux kernel NFS device node

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linux, linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerabilities

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security advisory critical privilege escalation Ubuntu linux kernel NFS device node

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