High
Security advisory
SELinux policycoreutils allows local users to execute arbitrary commands outside of the sandbox via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-7545
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
SELinux policycoreutils allows local users to execute arbitrary commands outside of the sandbox via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call.
osv:CVE-2016-7545
Complete source record
{
"id": "97529c9382d6ddfd8560a9faaf7f5e5ea43a5cda41bc9a156f470b37426d15c7",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7545",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2016-7545",
"summary": "SELinux policycoreutils allows local users to execute arbitrary commands outside of the sandbox via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-7545",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2016-7545",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2016-7545"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/selinuxproject/selinux",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "acca96a135a4d2a028ba9b636886af99c0915379"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"fixed": "acca96a135a4d2a028ba9b636886af99c0915379"
}
],
"source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"sepolgen-1.2.3",
"secilc-2.5",
"policycoreutils-2.5",
"libsepol-2.5",
"libsemanage-2.5",
"libselinux-2.5",
"checkpolicy-2.5",
"20160223",
"sepolgen-1.2.3-rc1",
"secilc-2.5-rc1",
"policycoreutils-2.5-rc1",
"libsepol-2.5-rc1",
"libsemanage-2.5-rc1",
"libselinux-2.5-rc1",
"checkpolicy-2.5-rc1",
"20160107",
"sepolgen-1.2.2",
"policycoreutils-2.4",
"libsepol-2.4",
"libsemanage-2.4",
"libselinux-2.4",
"checkpolicy-2.4",
"20150202",
"sepolgen-1.2.2-rc7",
"policycoreutils-2.4-rc7",
"libsepol-2.4-rc7",
"libsemanage-2.4-rc7",
"libselinux-2.4-rc7",
"checkpolicy-2.4-rc7",
"20140826-rc7",
"sepolgen-1.2.2-rc6",
"policycoreutils-2.4-rc6",
"libsepol-2.4-rc6",
"libsemanage-2.4-rc6",
"libselinux-2.4-rc6",
"checkpolicy-2.4-rc6",
"20140826-rc6",
"sepolgen-1.2.2-rc5",
"policycoreutils-2.4-rc5",
"libsepol-2.4-rc5",
"libsemanage-2.4-rc5",
"libselinux-2.4-rc5",
"checkpolicy-2.4-rc5",
"20140826-rc5",
"sepolgen-1.2.2-rc4",
"policycoreutils-2.4-rc4",
"libsepol-2.4-rc4",
"libsemanage-2.4-rc4",
"libselinux-2.4-rc4",
"checkpolicy-2.4-rc4",
"20140826-rc4",
"sepolgen-1.2.2-rc3",
"policycoreutils-2.4-rc3",
"libsepol-2.4-rc3",
"libsemanage-2.4-rc3",
"libselinux-2.4-rc3",
"checkpolicy-2.4-rc3",
"20140826-rc3",
"sepolgen-1.2.2-rc2",
"policycoreutils-2.4-rc2",
"libsepol-2.4-rc2",
"libsemanage-2.4-rc2",
"libselinux-2.4-rc2",
"20140826-rc2",
"20140826-rc1",
"policycoreutils-2.3",
"libsepol-2.3",
"libsemanage-2.3",
"libselinux-2.3",
"checkpolicy-2.3",
"20140506",
"policycoreutils-2.3-rc1",
"libsepol-2.3-rc1",
"libsemanage-2.3-rc1",
"libselinux-2.3-rc1",
"checkpolicy-2.3-rc1",
"policycoreutils-2.2.2",
"20131030_4",
"policycoreutils-2.2.1",
"20131030_3",
"sepolgen-1.2.1",
"20131030_2",
"sepolgen-1.2",
"policycoreutils-2.2",
"libsepol-2.2",
"libsemanage-2.2",
"libselinux-2.2",
"checkpolicy-2.2",
"20131030_1",
"20131030",
"20130423",
"20120924",
"20120216",
"20110727",
"20101221",
"20100525",
"20091123",
"20090731",
"20090403",
"20080909"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7545.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:31.210953810Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UPRNK3PWMAVNJZ53YW5GOEOGJSFNAQIF/",
"https://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=147465160112766&w=2",
"https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/commit/acca96a135a4d2a028ba9b636886af99c0915379"
],
"provider_metadata": {
"unresolved_ranges": [
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "25"
},
{
"last_affected": "25"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
},
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop",
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "6.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "6.0"
},
{
"introduced": "7.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "7.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
},
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node",
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "6.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "6.0"
},
{
"introduced": "7.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "7.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
},
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server",
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "6.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "6.0"
},
{
"introduced": "7.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "7.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
},
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus",
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "7.3"
},
{
"last_affected": "7.3"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
},
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation",
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "6.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "6.0"
},
{
"introduced": "7.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "7.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
}
]
}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2016-7545",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 379454,
"published_at": "2017-01-19T20:59:00.533+00:00"
}