SB2016111005 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Linux kernel
Published: November 10, 2016 Updated: June 1, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016111005
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7489)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Teradata Virtual Machine Community Edition v15.10's perl script /opt/teradata/gsctools/bin/t2a.pl creates files in /tmp in an insecure manner, this may lead to elevated code execution.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.