CVE-2015-3159

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2015-04-29
CWE:
CWE-20
Bugzilla:
1216962: CVE-2015-3159 abrt: missing process environment sanitizaton in abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache
It was discovered that the abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache helper program did not properly filter the process environment before invoking abrt-action-install-debuginfo. A local attacker could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.

Find out more about CVE-2015-3159 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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 6 (abrt) RHSA-2015:1210 2015-07-07
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (abrt) RHSA-2015:1083 2015-06-09

Acknowledgements

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

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