Gentoo: GLSA-201412-44: policycoreutils: Privilege escalation
Summary
The seunshare utility is owned by root with 4755 permissions which can be exploited by a setuid system call.
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
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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Synopsis
A vulnerability in policycoreutils could lead to local privilege escalation.
Background
policycoreutils is a collection of SELinux policy utilities.
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.