CVE-2010-2961
Published: 8 September 2010
mountall.c in mountall before 2.15.2 uses 0666 permissions for the root.rules file, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying this file.
From the Ubuntu Security Team
Alasdair MacGregor discovered that mountall created a udev rule file with world-writable permissions. A local attacker could exploit this under certain conditions to cause udev to execute arbitrary commands as the root user.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| kees | luckily, udev doesn't use inotify on this directory at boot time, so udev needs to be reloaded before this is really ugly. |
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