Bug 280363 (CVE-2009-2657)

Summary:	<sys-fs/nilfs-utils-2.0.14 privilege escalation (CVE-2009-2657)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Stefan Behte (RETIRED) <craig>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major	CC:	matsuu
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505374
Whiteboard:	~1 [ebuild]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-04 19:26:31 UTC

CVE-2009-2657 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-2657):
  nilfs-utils before 2.0.14 installs multiple programs with unnecessary
  setuid privileges, which allows local users to execute arbitrary
  commands via the device string in a -c command line option to
  mkfs.nilfs2.

Comment 1 MATSUU Takuto (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-04 22:32:31 UTC

I had dropped setuid by files/nilfs-utils-2.0.12-gentoo.patch. I contacted to upstream and got an answer that it has no effect in gentoo.

cf.
https://www.nilfs.org/pipermail/users/2009-July/000826.html
> Users using a distro package do not suffer the problem because the
suid bit is dropped in that case.

Comment 2 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-04 23:33:56 UTC

Ok, thanks & sorry! Closing INVALID.