CVE-2015-1862

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.0 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2018-02-09

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-362

Affected products

• Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (Redhat)

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131422/Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131423/Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131429/Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/34
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/14/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74263
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211223
• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/810
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36746/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36747/