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GLSA-201412-44 : policycoreutils: Privilege escalation

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80265

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Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-44 (policycoreutils: Privilege escalation)

 The seunshare utility is owned by root with 4755 permissions which can be exploited by a setuid system call.
 Impact :

 A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All policycoreutils users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=sys-apps/policycoreutils-2.2.5-r4'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201412-44

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80265

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201412-44.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 12/29/2014

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:policycoreutils, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/26/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3215

BID: 67341

GLSA: 201412-44