gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201804-18.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201804-18">
  <title>tenshi: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>Gentoo's tenshi ebuild is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to
    the way pid files are handled.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">tenshi</product>
  <announced>2018-04-22</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-04-22</revised>
  <bug>626654</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-admin/tenshi" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.17</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.17</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>A log monitoring program, designed to watch one or more log files for
      lines matching user defined regular expressions and report on the
      matches.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>It was discovered that the tenshi ebuild creates a tenshi.pid file after
      dropping privileges to a non-root account.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker could escalate privileges to root or kill arbitrary
      processes.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All tenshi users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-admin/tenshi-0.17"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11746">CVE-2017-11746</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-04-18T00:37:51Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-04-22T22:37:25Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>