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CVE-2014-3215

N/A

Published: May 8, 2014 at 10:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:07 AM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorPolicycoreutils

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.4%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Policycoreutils · Selinux Project

95%

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (10)

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0251.html

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00008.html

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/29/7

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/30/4

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/08/1

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT

Source: [email protected]

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/59007

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA

Source: [email protected]

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:156

CVSS

6.9MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: COMPLETE
Integrity: COMPLETE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-264

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