A flaw was found in the way certain ABRT core handlers processed crash reports in a namespaced environment. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.
Find out more about CVE-2015-1862 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of abrt package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Additional information about this is available at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211223#c7
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score | 7.2 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Complete |
| Integrity Impact | Complete |
| Availability Impact | Complete |
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| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.0 | abrt | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | abrt | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | abrt | Not affected |
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