CVE-2015-1862

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-1862
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-02-09 22:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-03-08 16:03:00 UTC
DescriptionThe crash reporting feature in Abrt allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an execve by root after a chroot into a user-specified directory in a namedspaced environment.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Abrt Project Abrt All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List
Fedora abrt Race Condition ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Abrt (Fedora 21) - Race Condition - Linux local Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
1211223 – (CVE-2015-1862) CVE-2015-1862 abrt: local privilege escalation through kernel.core_pattern CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Abrt / Apport Race Condition / Symlink ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Support handling crashes in lxc containers by sorki · Pull Request #810 · abrt/abrt · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Apport/Abrt (Ubuntu / Fedora) - Local Privilege Escalation - Linux local Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Abrt CVE-2015-1862 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Full Disclosure: Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks FULLDISC seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Linux Apport/Abrt Local Root Exploit ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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