CVE-2007-4849
Description
From CVE.org
JFFS2, as used on One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) build 542 and possibly other Linux systems, when POSIX ACL support is enabled, does not properly store permissions during (1) inode creation or (2) ACL setting, which might allow local users to access restricted files or directories after a remount of a filesystem, related to "legacy modes" and an inconsistency between dentry permissions and inode permissions.
Statement
Not vulnerable. There is no support for jffs2 in the Linux kernel as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3. There is no ACL support for jffs2 in the Linux kernel as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5.
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