SUSE-SU-2018:0927-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2018-04-11 16:02 - Updated: 2018-04-11 16:02
Summary
Security update for policycoreutils

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for policycoreutils
Description of the patch
This update for policycoreutils fixes the following issues: - CVE-2018-1063: Prevent chcon from following symlinks in /tmp, /var/tmp, /var/run and /var/lib/debug (bsc#1083624).
Patchnames
slessp4-policycoreutils-13556
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
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