CVE-2015-3170

First published: Tue May 05 2015(Updated: )

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.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

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