Bug 1416704 (CVE-2017-5618)
Summary: | CVE-2017-5618 screen: Privilege escalation via unsafe logfile handling | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Andrej Nemec <anemec> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | jridky, lnykryn, pdwyer, phracek |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2017-01-26 16:43:49 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 1416707 |
Description
Andrej Nemec
2017-01-26 09:49:40 UTC
The vulnerable code is not present in screen as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 5, 6 and 7. Also, Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 5, 6 and 7 are shipped with /usr/bin/screen SGID set to 'screen' group. CVE assignment: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/224 |