Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-43413 - Unspecified vulnerability in GNU Hurd
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
An issue was discovered in GNU Hurd before 0.9 20210404-9. A single pager port is shared among everyone who mmaps a file, allowing anyone to modify any files that they can read. This can be trivially exploited to get full root access.
References
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2002-11/msg00263.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2002-11/msg00263.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-06/msg00191.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-06/msg00191.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2021-05/msg00079.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2021-05/msg00079.html
- https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-hurd%40gnu.org/msg32113.html
- https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-hurd%40gnu.org/msg32113.html