Vulnerability CVE-2009-2657
Published: 2009-08-04   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
NILF -> Nilfs 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505374
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/24/4
http://www.nilfs.org/git/?p=nilfs2-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=d807e1c968c1f288486fb7d6f817434838fc12f7
http://www.nilfs.org/git/?p=nilfs2-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5cb60e624e4863c8d6feaf2ea8791abb48d6f15
http://www.nilfs.org/git/?p=nilfs2-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c95a57102e23e6982467cbe23e922450d3f38ed
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