CVE-2016-4445

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4445

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4445.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4445

Downstream

Published

2017-04-11T18:59:00Z

Modified

2026-10-20T10:47:52Z

Severity

7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

The fix_lookup_id function in sealert in setroubleshoot before 3.2.23 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands as root by triggering an SELinux denial with a crafted file name, related to executing external commands with the commands.getstatusoutput function.

Database specific

{
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "range":  [
                        {
                            "introduced":  "7.0"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected":  "7.0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source":  "CPE_STRING"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product":  "redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "range":  [
                        {
                            "introduced":  "7.0"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected":  "7.0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source":  "CPE_STRING"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product":  "redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "range":  [
                        {
                            "introduced":  "7.0"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected":  "7.0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source":  "CPE_STRING"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product":  "redhat:enterprise_linux_server"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "range":  [
                        {
                            "introduced":  "7.0"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected":  "7.0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source":  "CPE_STRING"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product":  "redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation"
        }
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/fedora-selinux/setroubleshoot

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/fedora-selinux/setroubleshoot

Events

Introduced

Last Affected

9831f438a7cc8de3d4c1bd1fc436e78910ecf4e1

Fixed

2d12677629ca319310f6263688bb1b7f676c01b7

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:setroubleshoot_project:setroubleshoot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "3.2.22"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "2d12677629ca319310f6263688bb1b7f676c01b7"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

setroubleshoot-3.*

setroubleshoot-3.2.21

setroubleshoot-3.2.22

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4445.json"