vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-1063: Security patch for policycoreutils (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N) | Mar 2, 2018 | Apr 27, 2020 | May 20, 2026 |
Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 2, 2018
Added
Apr 27, 2020
Modified
May 20, 2026
Description
Context relabeling of filesystems is vulnerable to symbolic link attack, allowing a local, unprivileged malicious entity to change the SELinux context of an arbitrary file to a context with few restrictions. This only happens when the relabeling process is done, usually when taking SELinux state from disabled to enable (permissive or enforcing). The issue was found in policycoreutils 2.5-11.
Solutions
amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-policycoreutilsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-policycoreutils-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-policycoreutils-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-policycoreutils-guiamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-policycoreutils-newroleamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-policycoreutils-pythonamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-policycoreutils-restorecondamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-policycoreutils-sandbox
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