CVE-2007-4849

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2007-4849 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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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