CVE-2014-3215: Selinuxproject Policycoreutils

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

seunshare in policycoreutils 2.2.5 is owned by root with 4755 permissions, and executes programs in a way that changes the relationship between the setuid system call and the getresuid saved set-user-ID value, which makes it easier for local users to gain privileges by leveraging a program that mistakenly expected that it could permanently drop privileges.

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Published 2014-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.