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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-2657

Published: Aug 04, 2009 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2657
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

nilfs-utils before 2.0.14 installs multiple programs with unnecessary setuid privileges, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via the device string in a -c command line option to mkfs.nilfs2.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
NilfsNilf*2.0.13 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.0 (including)1.0.0 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.1 (including)1.0.1 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.2 (including)1.0.2 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.3 (including)1.0.3 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.4 (including)1.0.4 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.5 (including)1.0.5 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.6 (including)1.0.6 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.7 (including)1.0.7 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.8 (including)1.0.8 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.9 (including)1.0.9 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.10 (including)1.0.10 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.11 (including)1.0.11 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.12 (including)1.0.12 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.13 (including)1.0.13 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.14 (including)1.0.14 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.15 (including)1.0.15 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.16 (including)1.0.16 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.17 (including)1.0.17 (including)
NilfsNilf1.0.18 (including)1.0.18 (including)
NilfsNilf2.0.0 (including)2.0.0 (including)
NilfsNilf2.0.1 (including)2.0.1 (including)
NilfsNilf2.0.2 (including)2.0.2 (including)
NilfsNilf2.0.4 (including)2.0.4 (including)
NilfsNilf2.0.5 (including)2.0.5 (including)
NilfsNilf2.0.6 (including)2.0.6 (including)
NilfsNilf2.0.7 (including)2.0.7 (including)
NilfsNilf2.0.9 (including)2.0.9 (including)
NilfsNilf2.0.10 (including)2.0.10 (including)
NilfsNilf2.0.12 (including)2.0.12 (including)
Nilfs2-toolsUbuntuintrepid*
Nilfs2-toolsUbuntujaunty*
Nilfs2-toolsUbuntukarmic*

References

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