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CVE-2013-1858

N/A

Published: April 5, 2013 at 09:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 2%

Description

The clone system-call implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.8.3 does not properly handle a combination of the CLONE_NEWUSER and CLONE_FS flags, which allows local users to gain privileges by calling chroot and leveraging the sharing of the / directory between a parent process and a child process.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Linux Kernel · Linux

95%

v ≤ 3.8.23.0 rc1 3.0 rc2 3.0 rc3 3.0 rc4 3.0 rc5 3.0 rc6 3.0 rc7 3.0.1 3.0.10 3.0.11 3.0.12 3.0.13 3.0.14 3.0.15 3.0.16 3.0.17 3.0.18 3.0.19 3.0.2 3.0.20 3.0.21 3.0.22 3.0.23 3.0.24 3.0.25 3.0.26 3.0.27 3.0.28 3.0.29 3.0.3 3.0.30 3.0.31 3.0.32 3.0.33 3.0.34 3.0.35 3.0.36 3.0.37 3.0.38 3.0.39 3.0.4 3.0.40 3.0.41 3.0.42 3.0.43 3.0.44 3.0.45 3.0.46 3.0.47 3.0.48 3.0.49 3.0.5 3.0.50 3.0.51 3.0.52 3.0.53 3.0.54 3.0.55 3.0.56 3.0.57 3.0.58 3.0.59 3.0.6 3.0.60 3.0.61 3.0.62 3.0.63 3.0.64 3.0.65 3.0.66 3.0.67 3.0.68 3.0.7 3.0.8 3.0.9 3.1 3.1 rc1 3.1 rc2 3.1 rc3 3.1 rc4 3.1.1 3.1.10 3.1.2 3.1.3 3.1.4 3.1.5 3.1.6 3.1.7 3.1.8 3.1.9 3.2 3.2 rc2 3.2 rc3 3.2 rc4 3.2 rc5 3.2 rc6 3.2 rc7 3.2.1 3.2.10 3.2.11 3.2.12 3.2.13 3.2.14 3.2.15 3.2.16 3.2.17 3.2.18 3.2.19 3.2.2 3.2.20 3.2.21 3.2.22 3.2.23 3.2.24 3.2.25 3.2.26 3.2.27 3.2.28 3.2.29 3.2.3 3.2.30 3.2.4 3.2.5 3.2.6 3.2.7 3.2.8 3.2.9 3.3 3.3 rc1 3.3 rc2 3.3 rc3 3.3 rc4 3.3 rc5 3.3 rc6 3.3 rc7 3.3.1 3.3.2 3.3.3 3.3.4 3.3.5 3.3.6 3.3.7 3.3.8 3.4 3.4 rc1 3.4 rc2 3.4 rc3 3.4 rc4 3.4 rc5 3.4 rc6 3.4 rc7 3.4.1 3.4.10 3.4.11 3.4.12 3.4.13 3.4.14 3.4.15 3.4.16 3.4.17 3.4.18 3.4.19 3.4.2 3.4.20 3.4.21 3.4.22 3.4.23 3.4.24 3.4.25 3.4.26 3.4.27 3.4.28 3.4.29 3.4.3 3.4.30 3.4.31 3.4.32 3.4.4 3.4.5 3.4.6 3.4.7 3.4.8 3.4.9 3.5.1 3.5.2 3.5.3 3.5.4 3.5.5 3.5.6 3.5.7 3.6 3.6.1 3.6.10 3.6.11 3.6.2 3.6.3 3.6.4 3.6.5 3.6.6 3.6.7 3.6.8 3.6.9 3.7 3.7.1 3.7.10 3.7.2 3.7.3 3.7.4 3.7.5 3.7.6 3.7.7 3.7.8 3.7.9 3.8.0 3.8.1

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (6)

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e66eded8309ebf679d3d3c1f5820d1f2ca332c71

x_refsource_MISCExploit

Source: [email protected]

http://stealth.openwall.net/xSports/clown-newuser.c

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.3

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/14/6

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921448

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e66eded8309ebf679d3d3c1f5820d1f2ca332c71

CVSS

7.2HIGH[email protected]

Confidentiality: COMPLETE
Integrity: COMPLETE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-264

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