A vulnerability in policycoreutils could lead to local privilege escalation.
Package | sys-apps/policycoreutils on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 2.2.5-r4 |
Unaffected versions | >= 2.2.5-r4 |
policycoreutils is a collection of SELinux policy utilities.
The seunshare utility is owned by root with 4755 permissions which can be exploited by a setuid system call.
A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All policycoreutils users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/policycoreutils-2.2.5-r4"
Release date
December 26, 2014
Latest revision
December 26, 2014: 1
Severity
high
Exploitable
local
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