FKIE_CVE-2009-1072
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-03-25 01:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:06
Severity
Summary
nfsd in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.9 does not drop the CAP_MKNOD capability before handling a user request in a thread, which allows local users to create device nodes, as demonstrated on a filesystem that has been exported with the root_squash option.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 10.3 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 11.0 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 11.1 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_desktop | 10 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_server | 10 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 4.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 5.0 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.06 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.10 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 9.04 | |
| vmware | vcenter_server | 4.0 | |
| vmware | virtualcenter | 2.0.2 | |
| vmware | virtualcenter | 2.5 | |
| microsoft | windows | - | |
| vmware | server | 2.0.0 | |
| vmware | esx | 3.0.3 | |
| vmware | esx | 3.5 | |
| vmware | esx | 4.0 | |
| vmware | vma | 4.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 5.0 |
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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