CVE-2014-3215 (GCVE-0-2014-3215)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-05-08 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:35
VLAI?
Summary
seunshare in policycoreutils 2.2.5 is owned by root with 4755 permissions, and executes programs in a way that changes the relationship between the setuid system call and the getresuid saved set-user-ID value, which makes it easier for local users to gain privileges by leveraging a program that mistakenly expected that it could permanently drop privileges.
Severity ?
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CWE
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Date Public ?
2014-04-29 00:00
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