ID:4385 - Exploit for Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Linux kernel - CVE-2013-1959

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Vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

kernel/user_namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9 does not have appropriate capability requirements for the uid_map and gid_map files, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening a file within an unprivileged process and then modifying the file within a privileged process.

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