CVE-2007-6733 Information

Description

The nfs_lock function in fs/nfs/file.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.9 does not properly remove POSIX locks on files that are setgid without group-execute permission which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) by locking a file on an NFS filesystem and then changing this file’s permissions a related issue to CVE-2010-0727.

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0304.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218777 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570863