Bug 1510921 (CVE-2016-5759) - CVE-2016-5759 kexec-tools: mkdumprd script called "dracut" in the current working directory
Summary: CVE-2016-5759 kexec-tools: mkdumprd script called "dracut" in the current wor...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-5759
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: 1510922
Blocks: 1510924
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-11-08 12:54 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-11-09 06:34:24 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-11-08 12:54:53 UTC 
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 12:55:15 UTC 
Created kexec-tools tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1510922]
Comment 2 Stefan Cornelius 2017-11-09 06:34:32 UTC 
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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