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CVE-2019-3689
critical
Description
The nfs-utils package in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 before and including version 1.3.0-34.18.1 and in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 before and including version 2.1.1-6.10.2 the directory /var/lib/nfs is owned by statd:nogroup. This directory contains files owned and managed by root. If statd is compromised, it can therefore trick processes running with root privileges into creating/overwriting files anywhere on the system.
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4400-1/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00026.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150733
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00071.html