Bug 1575106 (CVE-2016-6811)

Summary:	CVE-2016-6811 hadoop: privilege escalation to root
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	ctubbsii, denis.arnaud_fedora, milleruntime, rhel8-maint
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	hadoop 2.7.4	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2019-06-10 10:21:17 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1575107, 1575108
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-05-04 19:08:52 UTC

A flaw was found in Apache Hadoop 2.x before 2.7.4, a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.


References:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9ba3c12bbdfd5b2cae60909e48f92608e00c8d99196390b8cfeca307@%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-05-04 19:09:33 UTC

Created hadoop tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1575107]