PT-2017-6639

CVE-2015-3170

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Published

2017-07-21

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Updated

2017-07-26

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CVSS 2.0
2.1
Low
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions selinux-policy (affected versions not specified)
Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, specifically preventing SSH login, by creating a hardlink to /etc/passwd from a directory named .config and updating selinux-policy, when sysctl fs.protected hardlinks are set to 0.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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