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2.1 KiB
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="201412-15">
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<title>MCollective: Privilege escalation</title>
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<synopsis>Two vulnerabilities have been found in MCollective, the worst of
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which could lead to privilege escalation.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">mcollective</product>
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<announced>2014-12-13</announced>
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<revised count="1">2014-12-13</revised>
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<bug>513292</bug>
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<bug>517286</bug>
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<access>local</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="app-admin/mcollective" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">2.5.3</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">2.5.3</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>MCollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job
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execution systems.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>Two vulnerabilities have been found in MCollective:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>An untrusted search path vulnerability exists in MCollective
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(CVE-2014-3248)
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</li>
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<li>MCollective does not properly validate server certificates
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(CVE-2014-3251)
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</li>
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</ul>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>A local attacker can execute arbitrary a Trojan horse shared library,
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potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution and privilege
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escalation. Furthermore, a local attacker may be able to establish
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unauthorized MCollective connections.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>All MCollective users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/mcollective-2.5.3"
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</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3248">CVE-2014-3248</uri>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3251">CVE-2014-3251</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2014-07-22T21:26:18Z">K_F</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-12-13T17:06:37Z">ackle</metadata>
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</glsa>
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