CVE-2014-3215 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0251.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00008.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/29/7 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/30/4 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/08/1 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59007 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:156 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67341