CVE-2008-2544: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Linux Kernel: affected versions not specified

Published 2021-05-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.