Red Hat policycoreutils up to 1.27.10 seunshare_mount access control
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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Red Hat policycoreutils up to 1.27.10. This affects the function seunshare_mount
. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
The seunshare_mount function in sandbox/seunshare.c in seunshare in certain Red Hat packages of policycoreutils 2.0.83 and earlier in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and earlier, and Fedora 14 and earlier, mounts a new directory on top of /tmp without assigning root ownership and the sticky bit to this new directory, which allows local users to replace or delete arbitrary /tmp files, and consequently cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges, by running a setuid application that relies on /tmp, as demonstrated by the ksu application.
The weakness was released 02/24/2011 by Tavis Ormandy as Bug 633544 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2011-1011. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/17/2021). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 68246 (Oracle Linux 6 : policycoreutils (ELSA-2011-0414)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (65641) and Tenable (68246). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-69605, VDB-93742 and VDB-114028.
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Class: Access controlCWE: CWE-264
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Nessus ID: 68246
Nessus Name: Oracle Linux 6 : policycoreutils (ELSA-2011-0414)
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OpenVAS ID: 862929
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Update for policycoreutils FEDORA-2011-3043
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Timeline
02/14/2011 🔍02/22/2011 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: redhat.comAdvisory: Bug 633544
Researcher: Tavis Ormandy
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-1011 (🔍)
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X-Force: 65641
Vulnerability Center: 30701 - policycoreutils 2.0.83 and Prior Local DoS or Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 46510 - policycoreutils 'seunshare' Insecure Temporary Directory Creation Vulnerability
Secunia: 43415
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Entry
Created: 03/20/2015 16:16Updated: 10/17/2021 19:32
Changes: 03/20/2015 16:16 (60), 03/20/2017 09:21 (10), 10/17/2021 19:25 (5), 10/17/2021 19:32 (1)
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