Bug 1464968 (CVE-2017-7496) - CVE-2017-7496 fedora-arm-installer: Unsafe mount in /tmp allows privilege escalation
Summary: CVE-2017-7496 fedora-arm-installer: Unsafe mount in /tmp allows privilege esc...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2017-7496
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1464969
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-06-26 10:16 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:59 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-12-04 01:56:49 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-06-26 10:16:08 UTC 
Local privileges escalation is possible because of unsafe creation of directories in /tmp as a target for mount without checking a return value indicating if the operation failed or succeeded.

Upstream bug:

https://pagure.io/arm-image-installer/pull-request/10
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-06-26 10:16:10 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Michael Scherer (Red Hat)
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2017-06-26 10:16:35 UTC 
Created fedora-arm-installer tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1464969]
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