NFS Server Vulnerability: Privilege Escalation via mknod and Writable kmem Device

CVE-1999-0084 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Certain NFS servers allow users to use mknod to gain privileges by creating a writable kmem device and setting the UID to 0.

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