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CVE-2008-2544

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2021-05-27 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Mounting /proc filesystem via chroot command silently mounts it in read-write mode. The user could bypass the chroot environment and gain write access to files, he would never have otherwise.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-668

References