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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201709-01">
<title>MCollective: Remote Code Execution</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability in MCollective might allow remote attackers to
execute arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">mcollective</product>
<announced>2017-09-04</announced>
<revised count="1">2017-09-04</revised>
<bug>624704</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-admin/mcollective" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.11.0</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.11.0</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>MCollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job
execution systems.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>A vulnerability was discovered in MCollective which allowed for
deserialized YAML from agents without calling safe_load. This allows the
potential for arbitrary code execution on the server.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All MCollective users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-admin/mcollective-2.11.0"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-2292">CVE-2017-2292</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-08-26T22:18:27Z">Zlogene</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-09-04T22:33:20Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>