Vulnerability: Insecure Mount Flags Reset in Slackware 9.0's rc.M Script

Vulnerability: Insecure Mount Flags Reset in Slackware 9.0's rc.M Script

CVE-2003-0335 · HIGH Severity

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

rc.M in Slackware 9.0 calls quotacheck with the -M option, which causes the filesystem to be remounted and possibly reset security-relevant mount flags such as nosuid, nodev, and noexec.

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