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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201412-44">
  <title>policycoreutils: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in policycoreutils could lead to local privilege
    escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">policycoreutils</product>
  <announced>December 26, 2014</announced>
  <revised>December 26, 2014: 1</revised>
  <bug>509896</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-apps/policycoreutils" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.2.5-r4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.2.5-r4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>policycoreutils is a collection of SELinux policy utilities.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>The seunshare utility is owned by root with 4755 permissions which can
      be exploited by a setuid system call.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All policycoreutils users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      "&gt;=sys-apps/policycoreutils-2.2.5-r4"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3215">CVE-2014-3215</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 19 Aug 2014 04:53:45 +0000">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:53:38 +0000">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>