CVE-2018-1063

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-1063
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-03-02 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:55:00 UTC
DescriptionContext relabeling of filesystems is vulnerable to symbolic link attack, allowing a local, unprivileged malicious entity to change the SELinux context of an arbitrary file to a context with few restrictions. This only happens when the relabeling process is done, usually when taking SELinux state from disabled to enable (permissive or enforcing). The issue was found in policycoreutils 2.5-11.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Application Selinux Project Selinux - All All All
Application Selinux Project Selinux - All All All

References

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1550122 – (CVE-2018-1063) CVE-2018-1063 policycoreutils: Relabelling of symbolic links in /tmp and /var/tmp change the context of their target instead CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
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