Bug 1111687 (CVE-2014-3499) - CVE-2014-3499 docker: systemd socket activation results in privilege escalation
Summary: CVE-2014-3499 docker: systemd socket activation results in privilege escalation
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-3499
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1111760 1111769 1114810 1114811 1114816
Blocks: 1111739
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Reported: 2014-06-20 17:58 UTC by Jon Stanley
Modified: 2023-05-13 01:57 UTC (History)
19 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-07-01 04:42:20 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0820 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: docker security update 2014-07-01 08:04:13 UTC

Comment 30 Trevor Jay 2014-07-01 02:40:56 UTC 
It was found that the socket used to manage the Docker service was world readable and writable. A local user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root.

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Red Hat would like to thank Jon Stanley for reporting this issue.
Comment 31 Trevor Jay 2014-07-01 02:44:49 UTC 
This flaw also affects all Fedora 19 and 20 docker-io packages up to and including 1.0.0-4.
Comment 33 errata-xmlrpc 2014-07-01 04:05:06 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  RHEL Extras for RHEL-7

Via RHSA-2014:0820 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0820.html
Comment 34 Trevor Jay 2014-07-01 04:40:24 UTC 
Created docker-io tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1114810]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1114811]
Comment 35 Trevor Jay 2014-07-01 05:41:02 UTC 
Created docker-io tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1114816]
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