CVE-2014-3215 Privilege escalation in n/a
Local attackers can exploit seunshare's setuid behavior to gain elevated privileges by leveraging programs that incorrectly assume they can permanently drop privileges.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2014-3215?
CVE-2014-3215 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 8 May 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3215?
It affects 1 product.
Linux distribution packages (23)
libcap-ng Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-python Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-utils Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-python Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-utils Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-python Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-utils Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-python Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng-utils Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 0:0.7.5-4.el7 |
libcap-ng SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 | All versions | 0.6.3-1.9.6 |
libcap-ng SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 | All versions | 0.6.3-1.9.6 |
libcap-ng SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 | All versions | 0.6.3-1.9.6 |
Products include Selinuxproject Policycoreutils.
How do I fix CVE-2014-3215?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2014-3215 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3215 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-h57c-m953-4q5h, MGASA-2014-0251, RHBA-2015:2161, SUSE-SU-2017:0375-1.