Impact: Important Public Date: 2015-04-29 CWE: CWE-20 Bugzilla: 1216962: CVE-2015-3159 abrt: missing process environment sanitizaton in abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache It was discovered that the abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache helper program did not properly filter the process environment before invoking abrt-action-install-debuginfo. A local attacker could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.
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| Base Score | 6.6 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Complete |
| Integrity Impact | Complete |
| Availability Impact | None |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (abrt) | RHSA-2015:1210 | 2015-07-07 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (abrt) | RHSA-2015:1083 | 2015-06-09 |
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