Executive Summary

Summary
Title policycoreutils: Privilege escalation
Informations
Name GLSA-201412-44 First vendor Publication 2014-12-26
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-12-26
Severity (Vendor) High Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in policycoreutils could lead to local privilege escalation.

Background

policycoreutils is a collection of SELinux policy utilities.

Description

The seunshare utility is owned by root with 4755 permissions which can be exploited by a setuid system call.

Impact

A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All policycoreutils users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=sys-apps/policycoreutils-2.2.5-r4"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-3215 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3215

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-44.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-44.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-04-03 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0057.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-06 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-0375-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-18 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0037.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-04 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0109.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-03 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-3064.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-30 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-1272.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-18 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-544.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-18 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-543.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-15 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0060.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-14 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-3036.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-14 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-3035.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-28 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0056.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-24 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-3034.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-24 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-3033.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-24 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-3032.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-23 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2015-0864.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-22 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20150421_kernel_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2015-0864.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-22 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-0864.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-156.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-29 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201412-44.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-401.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-11 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-117.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-12-30 13:25:13
  • Multiple Updates
2014-12-26 21:22:44
  • First insertion