SB2017121205 - Privilege escalation in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Published: December 12, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017121205
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Privilege escalation (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15097)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.The weakness exists due to a race condition in several of the initialization and setup scripts. A local attacker with 'postgres' user privileges can obtain root privileges.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.