CVE-2019-3689

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.

This issue did not affect the versions of nfs-utils as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8 as /var/lib/nfs directory is owned by root:root.

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