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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201207-07.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201207-07">
<title>Keepalived: Denial of Service</title>
<synopsis>Keepalived uses world-writable PID files, allowing a local attacker
to kill arbitrary processes.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">keepalived</product>
<announced>July 09, 2012</announced>
<revised>July 09, 2012: 1</revised>
<bug>371469</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="sys-cluster/keepalived" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.2.2-r3</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.2.2-r3</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Keepalived is a strong &amp; robust keepalive facility to the Linux
Virtual Server project.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>The "pidfile_write()" function in pidfile.c in Keepalived writes PID
files with insecure permissions.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A local attacker may be able to cause a Denial of Service of arbitrary
processes.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Keepalived users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-cluster/keepalived-1.2.2-r3"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1784">CVE-2011-1784</uri>
</references>
<metadata timestamp="Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:50:31 +0000" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
<metadata timestamp="Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:28:51 +0000" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>