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Bug 1510921 - (CVE-2016-5759) CVE-2016-5759 kexec-tools: mkdumprd script called "dracut" in the current working directory
CVE-2016-5759 kexec-tools: mkdumprd script called "dracut" in the current wor...
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20160722,repor...
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Depends On: 1510922
Blocks: 1510924
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Reported: 2017-11-08 07:54 EST by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2017-11-09 01:34 EST (History)
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-11-08 07:54:53 EST 
The mkdumprd script called "dracut" in the current working directory "." allows local users to trick the administrator into executing code as root.

SUSE bug:

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990200
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-11-08 07:55:15 EST 
Created kexec-tools tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1510922]
Comment 2 Stefan Cornelius 2017-11-09 01:34:32 EST 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of kexec-tools as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.
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