CVE-2015-1862
HIGH severity · CVSS 7 · CWE-362
7CVSS HIGH
Summary
The crash reporting feature in Abrt allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an execve by root after a chroot into a user-specified directory in a namedspaced environment.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/810 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/810Patch
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/34Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/14/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74263Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211223Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131422/Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.htmlAdvisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131423/Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.htmlAdvisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131429/Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.htmlAdvisory