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Ubuntu: USN-4400-1 (CVE-2019-3689): nfs-utils vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4400-1 (CVE-2019-3689): nfs-utils vulnerability

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/19/2019
Created
06/24/2020
Added
06/23/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

The nfs-utils package in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 before and including version 1.3.0-34.18.1 and in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 before and including version 2.1.1-6.10.2 the directory /var/lib/nfs is owned by statd:nogroup. This directory contains files owned and managed by root. If statd is compromised, it can therefore trick processes running with root privileges into creating/overwriting files anywhere on the system.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-nfs-common

References

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