Vulnerability CVE-2014-3215
Published: 2014-05-08

Description:
seunshare in policycoreutils 2.2.5 is owned by root with 4755 permissions, and executes programs in a way that changes the relationship between the setuid system call and the getresuid saved set-user-ID value, which makes it easier for local users to gain privileges by leveraging a program that mistakenly expected that it could permanently drop privileges.

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.9/10
10/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Selinuxproject -> Policycoreutils 
Redhat -> Policycoreutils 

 References:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0251.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00008.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/29/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/30/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/08/1
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:156
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67341
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