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amazonAmazonALAS-2016-765
HistoryNov 10, 2016 - 6:00 p.m.

Important: policycoreutils

2016-11-1018:00:00
alas.aws.amazon.com
14

8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.2 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.3%

JSON

Issue Overview:

It was found that the sandbox tool provided in policycoreutils was vulnerable to a TIOCSTI ioctl attack. A specially crafted program executed via the sandbox command could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands in the context of the parent bash, escaping the sandbox.

Affected Packages:

policycoreutils

Issue Correction:
Run yum update policycoreutils to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    policycoreutils-debuginfo-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.i686  
    policycoreutils-restorecond-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.i686  
    policycoreutils-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.i686  
    policycoreutils-newrole-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.i686  
    policycoreutils-python-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    policycoreutils-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    policycoreutils-python-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.x86_64  
    policycoreutils-restorecond-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.x86_64  
    policycoreutils-debuginfo-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.x86_64  
    policycoreutils-newrole-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.x86_64  
    policycoreutils-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2016-7545

Mitre: CVE-2016-7545

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Amazon Linux1i686policycoreutils-debuginfo< 2.1.12-5.25.amzn1policycoreutils-debuginfo-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux1i686policycoreutils-restorecond< 2.1.12-5.25.amzn1policycoreutils-restorecond-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux1i686policycoreutils< 2.1.12-5.25.amzn1policycoreutils-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux1i686policycoreutils-newrole< 2.1.12-5.25.amzn1policycoreutils-newrole-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux1i686policycoreutils-python< 2.1.12-5.25.amzn1policycoreutils-python-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux1x86_64policycoreutils-python< 2.1.12-5.25.amzn1policycoreutils-python-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux1x86_64policycoreutils-restorecond< 2.1.12-5.25.amzn1policycoreutils-restorecond-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux1x86_64policycoreutils-debuginfo< 2.1.12-5.25.amzn1policycoreutils-debuginfo-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux1x86_64policycoreutils-newrole< 2.1.12-5.25.amzn1policycoreutils-newrole-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux1x86_64policycoreutils< 2.1.12-5.25.amzn1policycoreutils-2.1.12-5.25.amzn1.x86_64.rpm

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8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.2 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.3%

JSON
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