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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-4099

Published: Feb 08, 2014 | Modified: Apr 11, 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
4.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4099
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

The capsh program in libcap before 2.22 does not change the current working directory when the –chroot option is specified, which allows local users to bypass the chroot restrictions via unspecified vectors.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
LibcapLibcap*2.21 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.00 (including)2.00 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.01 (including)2.01 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.02 (including)2.02 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.03 (including)2.03 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.04 (including)2.04 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.05 (including)2.05 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.06 (including)2.06 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.07 (including)2.07 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.08 (including)2.08 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.09 (including)2.09 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.10 (including)2.10 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.11 (including)2.11 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.12 (including)2.12 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.13 (including)2.13 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.14 (including)2.14 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.15 (including)2.15 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.16 (including)2.16 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.17 (including)2.17 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.18 (including)2.18 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.19 (including)2.19 (including)
LibcapLibcap2.20 (including)2.20 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHatlibcap-0:2.16-5.5.el6*
Libcap2Ubuntulucid*
Libcap2Ubuntumaverick*
Libcap2Ubuntunatty*
Libcap2Ubuntuoneiric*
Libcap2Ubuntuquantal*
Libcap2Ubunturaring*
Libcap2Ubuntusaucy*
Libcap2Ubuntuupstream*

References

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