Re: Re: Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

On 04/14/2015 09:55 AM, cve-assign () mitre org wrote:
> This is mostly a question for the persons who assigned CVE-2015-1318
> and CVE-2015-1862. Should these CVE assignments be interpreted to
> mean:
>
>   CVE-2015-1318 - in Apport, an unprivileged user can use a
>                   namespace-based attack because there is an execve by
>                   root after a chroot into a user-specified directory
>
>   CVE-2015-1862 - in ABRT, an unprivileged user can use a
>                   namespace-based attack because there is an execve by
>                   root after a chroot into a user-specified directory
>
> with "Furthermore, Abrt suffers from numerous race conditions and
> symlink problems" not yet mapped to any CVE IDs? (CVE-2012-5660 is a

Because I asked Taviso to report them publicly, rather than play
whack-a-mole and do it slowly on distros, I'd rather do this out in the
open and all at once =).

> similar but older issue.) These additional ABRT issues would seem to
> be, for example, independently relevant on a system where the kernel
> was built without namespaces support. However, the raceabrt.c
> attachment says "This is a race condition exploit for CVE-2015-1862."


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