CVE-2015-1862

Description

A flaw was found in the way certain ABRT core handlers processed crash reports in a namespaced environment. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of abrt package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Additional information about this is available at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211223#c7

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authority (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications).

The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score7.26.9N/A
Attack VectorLocalLocalN/A
Access ComplexityLowMediumN/A
AuthenticationNoneNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactCompleteCompleteN/A
Integrity ImpactCompleteCompleteN/A
Availability ImpactCompleteCompleteN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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