Security Advisory

CVE-2015-3170

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-07-21 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 05:39:31
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.