SB2020042449 - Incorrect default permissions in Linux kernel
Published: April 24, 2020
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Incorrect default permissions (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15793)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
In shiftfs, a non-upstream patch to the Linux kernel included in the Ubuntu 5.0 and 5.3 kernel series, several locations which shift ids translate user/group ids before performing operations in the lower filesystem were translating them into init_user_ns, whereas they should have been translated into the s_user_ns for the lower filesystem. This resulted in using ids other than the intended ones in the lower fs, which likely did not map into the shifts s_user_ns. A local attacker could use this to possibly bypass discretionary access control permissions.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.