CVE-2021-42257 (GCVE-0-2021-42257)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-11 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:30
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Summary
check_smart before 6.9.1 allows unintended drive access by an unprivileged user because it only checks for a substring match of a device path (the /dev/bus substring and a number), aka an unanchored regular expression.
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