Candidate: CVE-2009-3286 PublicDate: 2009-09-22 10:30:00 UTC References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3286 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/21/2 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-852-1 Description: NFSv4 in the Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, does not properly clean up an inode when an O_EXCL create fails, which causes files to be created with insecure settings such as setuid bits, and possibly allows local users to gain privileges, related to the execution of the do_open_permission function even when a create fails. Ubuntu-Description: Notes: Bugs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524520 Priority: medium Discovered-by: Assigned-to: CVSS: Patches_linux-source-2.6.15: upstream_linux-source-2.6.15: released (2.6.19~rc6) dapper_linux-source-2.6.15: released (2.6.15-55.80) hardy_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE intrepid_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE jaunty_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE devel_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE Patches_linux: break-fix: - 81ac95c5569d7a60ab5db6c1ccec56c12b3ebcb5 upstream_linux: released (2.6.19~rc6) dapper_linux: DNE hardy_linux: released (2.6.24-25.63) intrepid_linux: released (2.6.27-15.43) jaunty_linux: released (2.6.28-16.55) devel_linux: not-affected