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Message-ID: <552D3F6F.1050502@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:25:19 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: Re: Re: Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks
On 04/14/2015 09:55 AM, cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
> This is mostly a question for the persons who assigned CVE-2015-1318
> and CVE-2015-1862. Should these CVE assignments be interpreted to
> mean:
>
> CVE-2015-1318 - in Apport, an unprivileged user can use a
> namespace-based attack because there is an execve by
> root after a chroot into a user-specified directory
>
> CVE-2015-1862 - in ABRT, an unprivileged user can use a
> namespace-based attack because there is an execve by
> root after a chroot into a user-specified directory
>
> with "Furthermore, Abrt suffers from numerous race conditions and
> symlink problems" not yet mapped to any CVE IDs? (CVE-2012-5660 is a
Because I asked Taviso to report them publicly, rather than play
whack-a-mole and do it slowly on distros, I'd rather do this out in the
open and all at once =).
> similar but older issue.) These additional ABRT issues would seem to
> be, for example, independently relevant on a system where the kernel
> was built without namespaces support. However, the raceabrt.c
> attachment says "This is a race condition exploit for CVE-2015-1862."
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