CVE-2016-4445

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-4445  

A shell command injection flaw was found in the way the setroubleshoot executed external commands. A local attacker able to trigger certain SELinux denials could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

A shell command injection flaw was found in the way the setroubleshoot executed external commands. A local attacker able to trigger certain SELinux denials could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

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CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.2
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (setroubleshoot) RHBA-2015:2287 2015-11-19
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (setroubleshoot) RHSA-2016:1267 2016-06-21

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 setroubleshoot Not affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Red Hat Product Security.