50 lines
1.6 KiB
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50 lines
1.6 KiB
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<?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="201709-05">
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<title>chkrootkit: Local privilege escalation</title>
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<synopsis>A vulnerability in chkrootkit may allow local users to gain root
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privileges.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">chkrootkit</product>
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<announced>2017-09-17</announced>
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<revised count="1">2017-09-17</revised>
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<bug>512356</bug>
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<access>local</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="app-forensics/chkrootkit" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">0.50</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">0.50</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>chkrootkit is a tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit.</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>When /tmp is mounted without the noexec option chkrootkit will execute
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files in /tmp with root privileges.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="high">
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<p>A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with root
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privileges.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>Users should mount /tmp with noexec option.</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>All chkrootkit 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-forensics/chkrootkit-0.50"
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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-2014-0476">
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CVE-2014-0476
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</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-09-10T06:30:28Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-09-17T15:44:38Z">chrisadr</metadata>
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</glsa>
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