CVE-2008-1940

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

25/04/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

The RBAC functionality in grsecurity before 2.1.11-2.6.24.5 and 2.1.11-2.4.36.2 does not enforce user_transition_deny and user_transition_allow rules for the (1) sys_setfsuid and (2) sys_setfsgid calls, which allows local users to bypass restrictions for those calls.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.60 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

4.60

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.4.33:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.4.33.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.4.33.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.4.33.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.4.34:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.6.18:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.6.24.4:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.4.33:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.4.33.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.4.33.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.4.33.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.4.34:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.6.18:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.6.24.4:::::::*

CVE-2008-1940

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools