{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2007-05-02T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: open() call allows setgid bit when user is not in new file's group",
    "id" : "463661",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463661"
  },
  "details" : [ "fs/open.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22 does not properly strip setuid and setgid bits when there is a write to a file, which allows local users to gain the privileges of a different group, and obtain sensitive information or possibly have unspecified other impact, by creating an executable file in a setgid directory through the (1) truncate or (2) ftruncate function in conjunction with memory-mapped I/O." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1",
    "release_date" : "2009-01-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0787",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.4.18-e.67"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1",
    "release_date" : "2009-01-08T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:0001",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.4.9-e.74"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3",
    "release_date" : "2008-12-17T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0973",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.4.21-58.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-11-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0972",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-78.0.8.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2008-11-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0957",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-92.1.18.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4210\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4210" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-4210",
  "csaw" : false
}