CVE-2016-4446: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The allow_execstack plugin for setroubleshoot allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by triggering an execstack SELinux denial with a crafted filename, related to the commands.getoutput function.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only
• Setroubleshoot Project Setroubleshoot: up to and including -

Published 2017-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.