vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2016-7545: ELSA-2016-2702: policycoreutils security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2016-09-22
Added
2016-11-14
Modified
2025-01-07

Description

SELinux policycoreutils allows local users to execute arbitrary commands outside of the sandbox via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call.
It was found that the sandbox tool provided in policycoreutils was vulnerable to a TIOCSTI ioctl attack. A specially crafted program executed via the sandbox command could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands in the context of the parent shell, escaping the sandbox.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-policycoreutilsoracle-linux-upgrade-policycoreutils-develoracle-linux-upgrade-policycoreutils-guioracle-linux-upgrade-policycoreutils-newroleoracle-linux-upgrade-policycoreutils-pythonoracle-linux-upgrade-policycoreutils-restorecondoracle-linux-upgrade-policycoreutils-sandbox
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