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Fedora 25: SECILC Security Advisory on Sandbox Fixes for CVE-2016-7545

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 26 critical security patch tackles confinement vulnerabilities and incorporates upstream corrections for improved safety.
This update backports several fixes from upstream and also fixes sandbox issues including CVE-2016-7545

Summary

The SELinux CIL Compiler is a compiler that converts the CIL language as

described on the CIL design wiki into a kernel binary policy file.

Please see the CIL Design Wiki at:

https://github.com/SELinuxProject/cil/wiki/

for more information about the goals and features on the CIL language.

Update Information:

This update backports several fixes from upstream and also fixes sandbox issues including CVE-2016-7545

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora SELinux sandbox fix secic

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1378577 - CVE-2016-7545 policycoreutils: SELinux sandbox escape via TIOCSTI ioctl https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378577

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update secilc' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: secilc
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 2.5
Release: 6.fc25
URL: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki
Summary: The SELinux CIL Compiler

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Topics Covered

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