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Bug 1340763 - (CVE-2016-4471) CVE-2016-4471 cfme: Privilege escalation causing arbitrary code execution
CVE-2016-4471 cfme: Privilege escalation causing arbitrary code execution
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20160812,reported=2...
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Depends On: 1353731
Blocks: 1340766
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Reported: 2016-05-30 05:14 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2016-08-22 16:16 EDT (History)
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-05-30 05:14:22 EDT
It was found that attacker having the access to appliance filesystem is able to execute arbitrary code under the same privileges as appliance runs. This issue is present since upstream commit f077196c99feb874e5cba8b93c1f8dfe26421c1b.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq/pull/7856
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-05-30 05:47:39 EDT
Acknowledgments:

Name: Simon Lukasik (Red Hat)
Comment 4 Kurt Seifried 2016-08-12 17:25:00 EDT
This issue was fixed in CloudForms 4.1 in erratum RHBA-2016:1348.

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