selinux-policy when sysctl fs.protected_hardlinks are set to 0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (SSH login prevention) by creating a hardlink to /etc/passwd from a directory named .config, and updating selinux-policy.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2017-07-21T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T05:39:31.987Z

Reserved: 2015-04-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-3170

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-07-21T14:29:00.397

Modified: 2017-07-26T20:03:13.940

Link: CVE-2015-3170

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-05-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-3170 - Bugzilla