CVE-2013-5710

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-5710
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-09-23 20:55:07 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe nullfs implementation in sys/fs/nullfs/null_vnops.c in the kernel in FreeBSD 8.3 through 9.2 allows local users with certain permissions to bypass access restrictions via a hardlink in a nullfs instance to a file in a different instance.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 3.7 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 8.0 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 8.3 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 8.4 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 9.0 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 9.1 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 9.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Advisory SA54861 - Debian update for kfreebsd-9 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2769-1 kfreebsd-9 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:13.nullfs.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.freebsd.org Vendor Advisory
[base] Revision 255442 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 svnweb.freebsd.org
FreeBSD Kernel nullfs(5) Cross-Mount Links May Let Local Users Bypass Access Controls - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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