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From: Yury German <blueknight@g.o>
To: gentoo-announce@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 201412-45 ] Facter: Privilege escalation
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 19:30:55
Message-Id: 549DB720.4030707@gentoo.org
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2 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201412-45
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7 Severity: High
8 Title: Facter: Privilege escalation
9 Date: December 26, 2014
10 Bugs: #514476
11 ID: 201412-45
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15 Synopsis
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18 An untrusted search path vulnerability in Facter could lead to local
19 privilege escalation.
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21 Background
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24 Facter is a cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from
25 operating systems.
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27 Affected packages
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31 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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33 1 dev-ruby/facter < 1.7.6 >= 1.7.6
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35 Description
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38 Facter includes the current working directory in the search path.
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40 Impact
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43 A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.
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45 Workaround
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48 There is no known workaround at this time.
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50 Resolution
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53 All Facter users should upgrade to the latest version:
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55 # emerge --sync
56 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-ruby/facter-1.7.6"
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58 References
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61 [ 1 ] CVE-2014-3248
62 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3248
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64 Availability
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67 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
68 the Gentoo Security Website:
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70 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-45.xml
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72 Concerns?
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75 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
76 confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
77 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
78 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
79 https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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81 License
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84 Copyright 2014 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
85 belongs to its owner(s).
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87 The contents of this document are licensed under the
88 Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
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90 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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