SB2015051806 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Fedoraproject Fedora
Published: May 18, 2015 Updated: August 9, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2015051806
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0278)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
libuv before 0.10.34 does not properly drop group privileges, which allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0186.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:228
- https://github.com/libuv/libuv/commit/66ab38918c911bcff025562cf06237d7fedaba0c
- https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/215
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/libuv/0JZxwLMtsMI/jraczskYWWQJ
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150526.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-10