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51 lines
1.7 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="201804-18">
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<title>tenshi: Privilege escalation</title>
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<synopsis>Gentoo's tenshi ebuild is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to
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the way pid files are handled.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">tenshi</product>
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<announced>2018-04-22</announced>
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<revised count="1">2018-04-22</revised>
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<bug>626654</bug>
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<access>local</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="app-admin/tenshi" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">0.17</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">0.17</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>A log monitoring program, designed to watch one or more log files for
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lines matching user defined regular expressions and report on the
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matches.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>It was discovered that the tenshi ebuild creates a tenshi.pid file after
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dropping privileges to a non-root account.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>A local attacker could escalate privileges to root or kill arbitrary
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processes.
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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 tenshi 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/tenshi-0.17"
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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/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11746">CVE-2017-11746</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-04-18T00:37:51Z">b-man</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-04-22T22:37:25Z">b-man</metadata>
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</glsa>
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