{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2009-03-19T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: nfsd should drop CAP_MKNOD for non-root",
    "id" : "491572",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491572"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.2",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "nfsd in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.9 does not drop the CAP_MKNOD capability before handling a user request in a thread, which allows local users to create device nodes, as demonstrated on a filesystem that has been exported with the root_squash option." ],
  "statement" : "This issue is not planned to be fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3, due to these products being in Production 3 of their maintenance life-cycles, where only qualified security errata of important or critical impact are addressed.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2009-06-03T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1081",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-117.el5rt"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2009-06-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1132",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-89.0.3.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2009-06-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1106",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-128.1.14.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1072\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1072" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2009-1072",
  "csaw" : false
}