CVE-2014-3215

medium

Description

seunshare in policycoreutils 2.2.5 is owned by root with 4755 permissions, and executes programs in a way that changes the relationship between the setuid system call and the getresuid saved set-user-ID value, which makes it easier for local users to gain privileges by leveraging a program that mistakenly expected that it could permanently drop privileges.

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0251.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00008.html

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/29/7

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/30/4

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/08/1

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/59007

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:156

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-05-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium