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CVE-2016-7545

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• 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: 2017-01-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

SELinux policycoreutils allows local users to execute arbitrary commands outside of the sandbox via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 25
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.3
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0
• SELinux Project Selinux: all versions

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2702.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0535.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0536.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/25/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93156
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037283
• https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/commit/acca96a135a4d2a028ba9b636886af99c0915379
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UPRNK3PWMAVNJZ53YW5GOEOGJSFNAQIF/
• https://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=147465160112766&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2702.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0535.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0536.html

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