Red Hat Security Advisory 2015-0729-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2015-0729-01 – The setroubleshoot packages provide tools to help diagnose SELinux problems. When Access Vector Cache messages are returned, an alert can be generated that provides information about the problem and helps to track its resolution. It was found that setroubleshoot did not sanitize file names supplied in a shell command look-up for RPMs associated with access violation reports. An attacker could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system by supplying a specially crafted file to the underlying shell command.

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