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policycoreutils: SELinux sandbox escape via TIOCSTI ioctl

🗓️ 14 Nov 2016 12:21:00Reported by RedHatType 
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Policycoreutils sandbox allows input injection via ioctl, escaping to parent shell and arbitrary commands.

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IBM Security Bulletins		Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
16 Jun 201822:03
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IBM Security Bulletins		Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in policycoreutils affects PowerKVM
18 Jun 201801:34
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IBM Security Bulletins		Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by Using Components with Known vulnerabilities (multiple CVEs)
16 Jun 201822:02
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IBM Security Bulletins		Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in expat, nss,  bind ,  policycoreutils, sudo shipped with  SmartCloud Entry Appliance
19 Jul 202000:49
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ATTACKERKB		CVE-2016-7545
19 Jan 201720:59
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Amazon		Important: policycoreutils
10 Nov 201600:00
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Tenable Nessus		Amazon Linux AMI : policycoreutils (ALAS-2016-765)
11 Nov 201600:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		CentOS 6 / 7 : policycoreutils (CESA-2016:2702)
21 Nov 201600:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Debian DLA-638-1 : policycoreutils security update
26 Sep 201600:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : policycoreutils (EulerOS-SA-2016-1083)
1 May 201700:00
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux6s390xpolicycoreutils0:2.0.83-30.1.el6_8policycoreutils-0:2.0.83-30.1.el6_8.s390x.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux6x86_64policycoreutils0:2.0.83-30.1.el6_8policycoreutils-0:2.0.83-30.1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux6anypolicycoreutils0:2.0.83-30.1.el6_8.i686policycoreutils-0:2.0.83-30.1.el6_8.i686.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7aarch64policycoreutils0:2.5-9.el7policycoreutils-0:2.5-9.el7.aarch64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7ppc64policycoreutils0:2.5-9.el7policycoreutils-0:2.5-9.el7.ppc64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7ppc64lepolicycoreutils0:2.5-9.el7policycoreutils-0:2.5-9.el7.ppc64le.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7s390xpolicycoreutils0:2.5-9.el7policycoreutils-0:2.5-9.el7.s390x.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7x86_64policycoreutils0:2.5-9.el7policycoreutils-0:2.5-9.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux6ppc64policycoreutils-debuginfo0:2.0.83-30.1.el6_8policycoreutils-debuginfo-0:2.0.83-30.1.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
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7.6High risk
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CVSS 27.2
CVSS 38.8
EPSS0.00072
policycoreutilssandboxinput injectionparent shellarbitrary commands
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