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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201904-05">
<title>BURP: Root privilege escalation</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability was discovered in Gentoo's ebuild for BURP which
could lead to root privilege escalation.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">burp</product>
<announced>2019-04-02</announced>
<revised count="1">2019-04-02</revised>
<bug>641842</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-backup/burp" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.1.32-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.1.32-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>A network backup and restore program.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>It was discovered that Gentoos BURP ebuild does not properly set
permissions or place the pid file in a safe directory. Additionally, the
first set of patches did not completely address this. As such, a
revision has been made available that addresses all concerns of the
initial report.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A local attacker could escalate privileges.</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>Users should ensure the proper permissions are set as discussed in the
referenced bugs.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All BURP users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-backup/burp-2.1.32-r1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18285">CVE-2017-18285</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-03-27T01:35:48Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-04-02T04:23:38Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>