| Name | CVE-2018-1063 |
| Description | Context relabeling of filesystems is vulnerable to symbolic link attack, allowing a local, unprivileged malicious entity to change the SELinux context of an arbitrary file to a context with few restrictions. This only happens when the relabeling process is done, usually when taking SELinux state from disabled to enable (permissive or enforcing). The issue was found in policycoreutils 2.5-11. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| policycoreutils (PTS) | bullseye | 3.1-3 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.4-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.7-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| policycoreutils | source | (unstable) | 2.7-1 | | | |
Notes
[stretch] - policycoreutils <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - policycoreutils <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - policycoreutils <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1550122
Mitigation by removing any symbolic link in /tmp and /var/tmp directories
before relabeling the file system. Futhtermore only triggerable at
relabeling time.
https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/commit/2608b4d6660af0fb8ad93f2cc144bdaab3c2afa8