A vulnerability in policycoreutils could lead to local privilege escalation.
| Package | Arch | Vulnerable | Unaffected |
|---|---|---|---|
| sys-apps/policycoreutils | * | < 2.2.5-r4 | >= 2.2.5-r4 |
policycoreutils is a collection of SELinux policy utilities.
The seunshare utility is owned by root with 4755 permissions which can be exploited by a setuid system call.
A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All policycoreutils users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/policycoreutils-2.2.5-r4"