selinux-policy when sysctl fs.protected_hardlinks are set to 0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (SSH login prevention) by creating a hardlink to /etc/passwd from a directory named .config, and updating selinux-policy.
References
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218672 | Issue Tracking |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2017-07-21T14:00:00
Updated: 2017-07-21T13:57:01
Reserved: 2015-04-10T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-3170
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2017-07-21T14:29:00.397
Modified: 2017-07-26T20:03:13.940
Link: CVE-2015-3170
JSON object: View
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CWE