Privilege escalation vulnerability in policycoreutils via TIOCSTI ioctlID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:37411 | Date: (C)2016-09-30 (M)2023-12-20 |
Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: unix |
The host is installed with policycoreutils on RHEL 6 or 7 and is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A flaw is present in the application, which fails to handle characters pushed into the terminal's input buffer. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to escape the sandbox.
Platform: |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 |