CVE-2014-5207 (GCVE-0-2014-5207)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-08-18 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:41
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 does not properly restrict clearing MNT_NODEV, MNT_NOSUID, and MNT_NOEXEC and changing MNT_ATIME_MASK during a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to gain privileges, interfere with backups and auditing on systems that had atime enabled, or cause a denial of service (excessive filesystem updating) on systems that had atime disabled via a "mount -o remount" command within a user namespace.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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| http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/110055 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
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| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128595/Linux… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/13/4 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2317-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
Date Public
2014-08-13 00:00
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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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