[Secure-testing-team] Bug#850320: mock: CVE-2016-6299: privilige escalation via mock-scm

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: mock
Version: 1.3.2-1
Severity: grave
Tags: patch security upstream
Justification: user security hole

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for mock. I'm not too
familiar with it, but following the code and the applied upstream
commit 1.3.2-1 should be vulnerable.

CVE-2016-6299[0]:
privilige escalation via mock-scm

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6299
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6299
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375490
[2] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/commit/8b02f43beadacf6911200b48d94e39e891a41da9

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore