CVE-2016-4444

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2016-06-21
CWE:
CWE-77
Bugzilla:
1332644: CVE-2016-4444 setroubleshoot-plugins: insecure commands.getstatusoutput use in the allow_execmod plugin
A shell command injection flaw was found in the way the setroubleshoot allow_execmod plugin executed external commands. A local attacker able to trigger an execmod SELinux denial could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Find out more about CVE-2016-4444 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.9
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
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 7 (setroubleshoot-plugins) RHSA-2016:1293 2016-06-23
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (setroubleshoot-plugins) RHSA-2016:1267 2016-06-21

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 setroubleshoot-plugins Not affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Milos Malik (Red Hat).

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