It was found that the sandbox tool provided in policycoreutils was vulnerable to a TIOCSTI ioctl attack. A specially crafted program executed via the sandbox command could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands in the context of the parent shell, escaping the sandbox.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | policycoreutils | 2016-11-10 18:00 | ALAS-2016-765 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 8.6 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |