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CVE-2016-8657 is a local privilege-escalation vulnerability in certain Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform packages. A service initialization configuration file was installed as root-owned but writable by the jboss group. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and earlier systems using legacy SysV-style init scripts, the JBoss service script sourced this configuration as root during service start, stop, or restart operations. A jboss-group member could inject shell content into the configuration and have it executed with root privileges.
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A privilege-escalation vulnerability in JBoss Application Server (jbossas) in which writable configuration files can permit privilege escalation.
A local privilege-escalation vulnerability caused by group-writable JBoss EAP configuration files that are executed with root privileges through legacy init scripts.
A local privilege-escalation vulnerability in JBoss EAP packages on RHEL systems using classic init scripts. Incorrect group-writable permissions on /etc/sysconfig/jbossas let members of the jboss group inject content subsequently executed as root by the JBoss init script.
A vulnerability mistakenly listed as resolved by this erratum; the advisory states it affects RPM installations rather than the zip-file distribution supplied by the erratum.
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