CVE-2015-1869
It was discovered that the default event handling scripts installed by ABRT did not handle symbolic links correctly. A local attacker with write access to an ABRT problem directory could use this flaw to escalate their privileges.
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CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 7.2 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Complete |
| Integrity Impact | Complete |
| Availability Impact | Complete |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (abrt) | RHSA-2015:1210 | 2015-07-07 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (abrt) | RHSA-2015:1083 | 2015-06-09 |