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Re: User man Local Root Exploit/Linux Kernel setgid Directory Privilege Escalation/PAM Owner Check Weakness


From: cve-assign () mitre org
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:31:13 -0500 (EST)

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http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/MandbSymlinkLocalRootPrivilegeEscalation/
http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/SetgidDirectoryPrivilegeEscalation/

The MITRE CVE team doesn't exactly know what we can do with these
references. The first one mentions a CVE ID from Ubuntu,
CVE-2015-1336, but
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-1336.html
doesn't yet exist. Possibly the CVE ID is supposed to be for use of
"chown man" in /etc/cron.daily/man-db within both Ubuntu and Debian
distributions.

The second one doesn't mention any CVE ID. Would it be useful for
MITRE to assign a CVE ID for the permissions/ownerships error of:

  drwxr-sr-x 25 man root 4096 May 15 00:40 /var/cache/man

? Our understanding is that this is, more or less, currently
unsupported by the Linux kernel. In other words, it is not valid to
choose that specific set of permissions/ownerships if one is concerned
about an attack by someone with the uid of the man account. This issue
affects both Ubuntu and Debian distributions.

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CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority
M/S M300
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
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