Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting bash-doc package, versions <0:4.2.46-28.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.58% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-BASHDOC-4743599
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed16 Sept 2016

Introduced: 16 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-7543  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 bash-doc to version 0:4.2.46-28.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:1931.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bash-doc package and not the bash-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Bash before 4.4 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via crafted SHELLOPTS and PS4 environment variables.