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SUSE: CVE-2016-7543: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-7543: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/19/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/19/2017
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

Bash before 4.4 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via crafted SHELLOPTS and PS4 environment variables.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-bash
  • suse-upgrade-bash-devel
  • suse-upgrade-bash-doc
  • suse-upgrade-bash-lang
  • suse-upgrade-bash-x86
  • suse-upgrade-libreadline5
  • suse-upgrade-libreadline5-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libreadline5-x86
  • suse-upgrade-libreadline6
  • suse-upgrade-libreadline6-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-readline-devel
  • suse-upgrade-readline-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-readline-doc
  • suse-upgrade-sles12-docker-image
  • suse-upgrade-sles12sp1-docker-image

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