Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in seunshare in policycoreutils 2.2.5

CVE-2014-3215 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

seunshare in policycoreutils 2.2.5 is owned by root with 4755 permissions, and executes programs in a way that changes the relationship between the setuid system call and the getresuid saved set-user-ID value, which makes it easier for local users to gain privileges by leveraging a program that mistakenly expected that it could permanently drop privileges.

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