Vulnerabilites related to Canonical - Ubuntu Kernel
cve-2023-2640
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-07-26 01:59
Modified
2024-10-23 14:59
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
On Ubuntu kernels carrying both c914c0e27eb0 and "UBUNTU: SAUCE: overlayfs: Skip permission checking for trusted.overlayfs.* xattrs", an unprivileged user may set privileged extended attributes on the mounted files, leading them to be set on the upper files without the appropriate security checks.
References
| ▼ | URL | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6250-1 | vendor-advisory | |
| https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-2640 | issue-tracking | |
| https://wiz.io/blog/ubuntu-overlayfs-vulnerability | technical-description | |
| https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2023-July/140923.html | mailing-list |
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canonical | Ubuntu Kernel |
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cve-2023-32629
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-07-26 01:59
Modified
2025-02-13 16:54
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in Ubuntu Kernels overlayfs ovl_copy_up_meta_inode_data skip permission checks when calling ovl_do_setxattr on Ubuntu kernels
References
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