gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201709-11.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201709-11">
  <title>GIMPS: Root privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>Gentoo's GIMPS ebuilds are vulnerable to privilege escalation due
    to improper permissions. A local attacker could use it to gain root
    privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">gimps</product>
  <announced>2017-09-17</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-09-17</revised>
  <bug>603408</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sci-mathematics/gimps" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">28.10-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">28.10-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, is a software capable
      of find Mersenne Primes, which are used in cryptography. GIMPS is also
      used for hardware testing.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>It was discovered that Gentoo’s default GIMPS installation suffered
      from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the init script. This script
      calls an unsafe “chown -R” command in checkconfig() function.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A local attacker who does not belong to the root group, but has the
      ability to modify the /var/lib/gimps directory can escalate privileges to
      the root group.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All GIMPS users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sci-mathematics/gimps-28.10-r1"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14484">CVE-2017-14484</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-09-10T06:41:04Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-09-17T19:05:30Z">chrisadr</metadata>
</glsa>