Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 2, 2018· Updated Aug 5, 2024
CVE-2018-1063
CVE-2018-1063
Description
Context relabeling of filesystems is vulnerable to symbolic link attack, allowing a local, unprivileged malicious entity to change the SELinux context of an arbitrary file to a context with few restrictions. This only happens when the relabeling process is done, usually when taking SELinux state from disabled to enable (permissive or enforcing). The issue was found in policycoreutils 2.5-11.
Affected products
1- Range: 2.5-11 and newer
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
2- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0913mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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