CVE-2009-2657 Information

Description

nilfs-utils before 2.0.14 installs multiple programs with unnecessary setuid privileges which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via the device string in a -c command line option to mkfs.nilfs2.

Reference

http://www.nilfs.org/git/?p=nilfs2-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c95a57102e23e6982467cbe23e922450d3f38ed http://www.nilfs.org/git/?p=nilfs2-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5cb60e624e4863c8d6feaf2ea8791abb48d6f15 http://www.nilfs.org/git/?p=nilfs2-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=d807e1c968c1f288486fb7d6f817434838fc12f7 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/24/4 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505374