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| author |   Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org> | 2018-04-22 18:38:16 -0400 |
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| committer | Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org> | 2018-04-22 18:38:16 -0400 |
| commit | 40479df08184ae900c2755771da3bd01e5fb1b25 (patch) | |
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| parent | [ GLSA 201804-17 ] Quagga: Multiple vulnerabilities (diff) | |
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[ GLSA 201804-18 ] tenshi: Privilege escalation
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diff --git a/glsa-201804-18.xml b/glsa-201804-18.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..11d18817 --- /dev/null +++ b/glsa-201804-18.xml @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> +<glsa id="201804-18"> + <title>tenshi: Privilege escalation</title> + <synopsis>Gentoo's tenshi ebuild is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to + the way pid files are handled. + </synopsis> + <product type="ebuild">tenshi</product> + <announced>2018-04-22</announced> + <revised count="1">2018-04-22</revised> + <bug>626654</bug> + <access>local</access> + <affected> + <package name="app-admin/tenshi" auto="yes" arch="*"> + <unaffected range="ge">0.17</unaffected> + <vulnerable range="lt">0.17</vulnerable> + </package> + </affected> + <background> + <p>A log monitoring program, designed to watch one or more log files for + lines matching user defined regular expressions and report on the + matches. + </p> + </background> + <description> + <p>It was discovered that the tenshi ebuild creates a tenshi.pid file after + dropping privileges to a non-root account. + </p> + </description> + <impact type="normal"> + <p>A local attacker could escalate privileges to root or kill arbitrary + processes. + </p> + </impact> + <workaround> + <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> + </workaround> + <resolution> + <p>All tenshi users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> + + <code> + # emerge --sync + # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/tenshi-0.17" + </code> + </resolution> + <references> + <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11746">CVE-2017-11746</uri> + </references> + <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-04-18T00:37:51Z">b-man</metadata> + <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-04-22T22:37:25Z">b-man</metadata> +</glsa> |