policycoreutils: Privilege escalation — GLSA 201412-44

A vulnerability in policycoreutils could lead to local privilege escalation.

Package	sys-apps/policycoreutils on all architectures
Affected versions	< 2.2.5-r4
Unaffected versions	>= 2.2.5-r4

policycoreutils is a collection of SELinux policy utilities.

The seunshare utility is owned by root with 4755 permissions which can be exploited by a setuid system call.

A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All policycoreutils users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
 ">=sys-apps/policycoreutils-2.2.5-r4"

Release date
December 26, 2014

Latest revision
December 26, 2014: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
local

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