Bug 1654239 (CVE-2018-11766) - CVE-2018-11766 hadoop: Privilege escalation to root (Incomplete fix for CVE-2016-6811)
Summary: CVE-2018-11766 hadoop: Privilege escalation to root (Incomplete fix for CVE-2...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-11766
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: 1654240
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-11-28 10:18 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-16 22:43 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: hadoop 2.7.7
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:43:22 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-11-28 10:18:23 UTC 
In Apache Hadoop 2.7.4 to 2.7.6, the security fix for CVE-2016-6811 is incomplete. A user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.

References:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/185

External References:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff37bbbe09d5f03090e2dd2c3dea95de16ef4249e731f19b8959ce4c@%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-11-28 10:18:34 UTC 
Created hadoop tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1654240]
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