Bugzilla – Bug 727713
VUL-0: libcap/capsh: does not chdir after chroot
Last modified: 2011-11-02 09:33:22 UTC
Your friendly security team received the following report via oss-security. Please respond ASAP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:54:37 +0530 From: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@redhat.com> Subject: [oss-security] libcap/capsh: does not chdir after chroot Hi All, It was found that capsh program, usually shipped with the libcap package, did not do a chdir("/") after calling chroot, when called with a "--chroot" option. This resulted in the current directory being outside the chroot. This has been assigned CVE-2011-4099 Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722694 -- Huzaifa Sidhpurwala / Red Hat Security Response Team
ups dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 727715 ***