CVE-2014-3215

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

seunshare in policycoreutils 2.2.5 is owned by root with 4755 permissions, and executes programs in a way that changes the relationship between the setuid system call and the getresuid saved set-user-ID value, which makes it easier for local users to gain privileges by leveraging a program that mistakenly expected that it could permanently drop privileges.

Affected products

SELinuxProject Policycoreutils: 2.2.5

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0251.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00008.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/29/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/30/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/08/1
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59007
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:156
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67341
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0251.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00008.html

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