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| author |   Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org> | 2017-09-17 15:06:05 -0400 |
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| committer | Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org> | 2017-09-17 15:06:05 -0400 |
| commit | 5683f926266251a840990b702845edf661f59bdc (patch) | |
| tree | 3a556b9fc9f12eed0dfce7f32a62d1ae472e63be | |
| parent | Add GLSA 201709-10 (diff) | |
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Add GLSA 201709-11
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diff --git a/glsa-201709-11.xml b/glsa-201709-11.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c9bbbce3 --- /dev/null +++ b/glsa-201709-11.xml @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> +<glsa id="201709-11"> + <title>GIMPS: Root privilege escalation</title> + <synopsis>Gentoo's GIMPS ebuilds are vulnerable to privilege escalation due + to improper permissions. A local attacker could use it to gain root + privileges. + </synopsis> + <product type="ebuild">gimps</product> + <announced>2017-09-17</announced> + <revised>2017-09-17: 1</revised> + <bug>603408</bug> + <access>local</access> + <affected> + <package name="sci-mathematics/gimps" auto="yes" arch="*"> + <unaffected range="ge">28.10-r1</unaffected> + <vulnerable range="lt">28.10-r1</vulnerable> + </package> + </affected> + <background> + <p>GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, is a software capable + of find Mersenne Primes, which are used in cryptography. GIMPS is also + used for hardware testing. + </p> + </background> + <description> + <p>It was discovered that Gentoo’s default GIMPS installation suffered + from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the init script. This script + calls an unsafe “chown -R” command in checkconfig() function. + </p> + </description> + <impact type="high"> + <p>A local attacker who does not belong to the root group, but has the + ability to modify the /var/lib/gimps directory can escalate privileges to + the root group. + </p> + </impact> + <workaround> + <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> + </workaround> + <resolution> + <p>All GIMPS users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> + + <code> + # emerge --sync + # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sci-mathematics/gimps-28.10-r1" + </code> + + </resolution> + <references> + <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14484">CVE-2017-14484</uri> + </references> + <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-09-10T06:41:04Z">BlueKnight</metadata> + <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-09-17T19:05:30Z">chrisadr</metadata> +</glsa> |