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49 lines
1.6 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="201412-45">
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<title>Facter: Privilege escalation</title>
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<synopsis>An untrusted search path vulnerability in Facter could lead to
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local privilege escalation.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">facter</product>
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<announced>2014-12-26</announced>
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<revised count="1">2014-12-26</revised>
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<bug>514476</bug>
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<access>local</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="dev-ruby/facter" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">1.7.6</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">1.7.6</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>Facter is a cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from
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operating systems.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>Facter includes the current working directory in the search path.</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="high">
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<p>A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.</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 Facter 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 ">=dev-ruby/facter-1.7.6"
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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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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2014-08-16T21:34:38Z">
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BlueKnight
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-12-26T18:59:01Z">ackle</metadata>
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</glsa>
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