Vulnerability CVE-2011-4099
Published: 2014-02-07   Modified: 2014-02-08

Description:
The capsh program in libcap before 2.22 does not change the current working directory when the --chroot option is specified, which allows local users to bypass the chroot restrictions via unspecified vectors.

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
Libcap -> Libcap 

 References:
https://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/release-notes-for-libcap/releasenotesfor222
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722694
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1694.html
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