Important: policycoreutils security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-7545   CVE-2016-7545  

Synopsis

Important: policycoreutils security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for policycoreutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The policycoreutils packages contain the core policy utilities required to manage a SELinux environment.

Security Fix(es):

  • 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. (CVE-2016-7545)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.2 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.2 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.2 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.2 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1378577 - CVE-2016-7545 policycoreutils: SELinux sandbox escape via TIOCSTI ioctl

CVEs

References