Bug 1575106 (CVE-2016-6811) - CVE-2016-6811 hadoop: privilege escalation to root
Summary: CVE-2016-6811 hadoop: privilege escalation to root
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-6811
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1575107 1575108
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-05-04 19:08 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:38 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: hadoop 2.7.4
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:21:17 UTC

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Description Laura Pardo 2018-05-04 19:08:52 UTC 
A flaw was found in Apache Hadoop 2.x before 2.7.4, a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.


References:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9ba3c12bbdfd5b2cae60909e48f92608e00c8d99196390b8cfeca307@%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-05-04 19:09:33 UTC 
Created hadoop tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1575107]
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