gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201805-11.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201805-11">
<title>Rootkit Hunter: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in Rootkit Hunter that allows a
remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">rkhunter</product>
<announced>2018-05-26</announced>
<revised count="1">2018-05-26</revised>
<bug>623150</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-forensics/rkhunter" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.4.6</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.4.6</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Scans for known and unknown rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>A vulnerability was discovered in Rootkit Hunter that allows the
downloading of mirror updates over insecure channels (HTTP).
Furthermore, the mirror update is then executed in Bash.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote attacker, by performing a man-in-the-middle attack, could
execute arbitrary code, conduct a Denial of Service, or have other
unspecified impacts.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>Users are advised to not trust insecure protocols such as HTTP and to
turn off any mirror updates utilizing such channels.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Rootkit Hunter users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-forensics/rkhunter-1.4.6"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7480">CVE-2017-7480</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-05-26T14:19:37Z">b-man</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-05-26T15:45:59Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>