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SUSE: CVE-2016-7545: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/19/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/01/2017
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-policycoreutils
  • suse-upgrade-policycoreutils-devel
  • suse-upgrade-policycoreutils-lang
  • suse-upgrade-policycoreutils-newrole
  • suse-upgrade-policycoreutils-python
  • suse-upgrade-python3-policycoreutils

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