CVE-2011-4099

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Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4099

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2011-4099.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2011-4099

Downstream

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4099

RHSA-2011:1694

Published

2014-02-08T00:55:05Z

Modified

2025-08-09T20:01:26Z

Summary

[none]

Details

The capsh program in libcap before 2.22 does not change the current working directory when the --chroot option is specified, which allows local users to bypass the chroot restrictions via unspecified vectors.

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1694.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722694
https://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/release-notes-for-libcap/releasenotesfor222

CVE-2011-4099

Affected packages