Shared Pager Port Vulnerability in GNU Hurd Allows Unauthorized File Modification and Root Access

Shared Pager Port Vulnerability in GNU Hurd Allows Unauthorized File Modification and Root Access

CVE-2021-43413 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

An issue was discovered in GNU Hurd before 0.9 20210404-9. A single pager port is shared among everyone who mmaps a file, allowing anyone to modify any files that they can read. This can be trivially exploited to get full root access.

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