CVE-2015-1862

The crash reporting feature in Abrt allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an execve by root after a chroot into a user-specified directory in a namedspaced environment.

• CWE-362

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131422/Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131423/Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131429/Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/34Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/14/4Mailing List
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74263Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211223Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/810Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36746/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36747/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131422/Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131423/Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131429/Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/34Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/14/4Mailing List
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74263Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211223Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/810Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36746/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36747/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Published

Feb 9, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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