CVE-2015-3150

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2015-04-22
CWE:
CWE-20
Bugzilla:
1214457: CVE-2015-3150 abrt: abrt-dbus does not guard against crafted problem directory path arguments
It was discovered that the abrt-dbus D-Bus service did not properly check the validity of the problem directory argument in the ChownProblemDir, DeleteElement, and DeleteProblem methods. A local attacker could use this flaw take ownership of arbitrary files and directories, or to delete files and directories as the root user.

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CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.6
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (abrt) RHSA-2015:1083 2015-06-09

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 abrt Not affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

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