Bug 2120255 (CVE-2022-2787) - CVE-2022-2787 schroot: denial of service in schroot
Summary: CVE-2022-2787 schroot: denial of service in schroot
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2022-2787
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2120257 2120258
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-08-22 10:55 UTC by ybuenos
Modified: 2022-09-02 12:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-09-02 12:55:48 UTC
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Description ybuenos 2022-08-22 10:55:34 UTC 
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to schroot has too permissive rules on chroot or session names. A local user can perform a denial of service on the schroot service for all users that may start a schroot session.
Comment 1 ybuenos 2022-08-22 10:56:48 UTC 
Created schroot tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2120257]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2120258]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-09-02 12:55:47 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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