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Calendar Grey December 26, 2014
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Gentoo GLSA 201512-67 highlights a severe vulnerability within systemd that poses a threat to user permissions and system integrity.
A vulnerability in policycoreutils could lead to local privilege escalation.

Summary

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

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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: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201412-44
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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Severity: High
Title: policycoreutils: Privilege escalation
Date: December 26, 2014
Bugs: #509896
ID: 201412-44

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Synopsis

A vulnerability in policycoreutils could lead to local privilege escalation.

Background

policycoreutils is a collection of SELinux policy utilities.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sys-apps/policycoreutils < 2.2.5-r4 >= 2.2.5-r4

Impact

===== A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.