CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-6299

Published: Apr 14, 2017 | Modified: Feb 13, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
9.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The scm plug-in in mock might allow attackers to bypass the intended chroot protection mechanism and gain root privileges via a crafted spec file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Fedora Fedoraproject 25 25
Fedora Fedoraproject 24 24
Fedora Fedoraproject 23 23
Mock Ubuntu artful *
Mock Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Mock Ubuntu trusty *
Mock Ubuntu upstream *
Mock Ubuntu xenial *
Mock Ubuntu yakkety *
Mock Ubuntu zesty *

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