PT-2009-5053 · Nippon Telegraph Telephone · Nilfs-Utils

Eric Sandeen · Published 2009-08-04 · Updated 2009-08-05 · CVE-2009-2657

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions nilfs-utils versions prior to 2.0.14

Description The issue allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via the device string in a -c command line option to mkfs.nilfs2(). This is due to multiple programs being installed with unnecessary setuid privileges.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.0.14, update to version 2.0.14 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider removing setuid privileges from unnecessary programs to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-2657

Affected Products

Nilfs-Utils

References · 7

• 🔥 http://nilfs.org/git/?p=nilfs2-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5cb60e624e4863c8d6feaf2ea8791abb48d6f15 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2657 · Security Note
• http://nilfs.org/git/?p=nilfs2-utils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d807e1c968c1f288486fb7d6f817434838fc12f7 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505374 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/24/4 · Note
• http://nilfs.org/git/?p=nilfs2-utils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5c95a57102e23e6982467cbe23e922450d3f38ed · Note
• http://nilfs.org/git/?p=nilfs2-utils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a5cb60e624e4863c8d6feaf2ea8791abb48d6f15 · Note