Bug 1384393 (CVE-2016-8659) - CVE-2016-8659 bubblewrap: Privilege escalation via PR_SET_DUMPABLE flag
Summary: CVE-2016-8659 bubblewrap: Privilege escalation via PR_SET_DUMPABLE flag
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-8659
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1384394
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-10-13 08:44 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-05-02 08:50:48 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-10-13 08:44:26 UTC 
A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found in bubblewrap. Possible misuse of PR_SET_DUMPABLE flag might result in arbitrary code execution.

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http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/105
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-10-13 08:45:24 UTC 
Created bubblewrap tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1384394]
Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-10-13 13:17:09 UTC 
Upstream bug:

https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap/issues/107
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