An insufficient environment sanitization flaw was found in the way 'abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache' tool, performing installation of required debuginfo packages into ABRT's cache, of ABRT, an automatic bug detection and reporting tool, used the PYTHONPATH environment variable. A local attacker could provide a commonly used Python module with specially-crafted content in non-standard system location / path, which would lead into arbitrary Python code execution with privileges of the 'abrt' user, when the 'abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache' tool was run from the parent directory of the folder, containing the malicious module.

Issue found by: Miloslav Trmač of Red Hat

The C handler plug-in in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT), possibly 2.0.8 and earlier, does not properly set the group (GID) permissions on core dump files for setuid programs when the sysctl fs.suiddumpable option is set to 2, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information.