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CVE-2008-2544

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-05-27 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-668

Description

Mounting /proc filesystem via chroot command silently mounts it in read-write mode. The user could bypass the chroot environment and gain write access to files, he would never have otherwise.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: all versions

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=213135
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=213135

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