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From: "Sean Amoss (ackle)" <ackle@g.o>
To: gentoo-commits@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa: glsa-201207-07.xml
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:31:30
Message-Id: 20120709233109.8DFFD20063@flycatcher.gentoo.org
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5 GLSA 201207-07
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10 file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-201207-07.xml?rev=1.1&view=markup
11 plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-201207-07.xml?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain
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15 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
16 <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/xsl/glsa.xsl"?>
17 <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/xsl/guide.xsl"?>
18 <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
19 <glsa id="201207-07">
20 <title>Keepalived: Denial of Service</title>
21 <synopsis>Keepalived uses world-writable PID files, allowing a local attacker
22 to kill arbitrary processes.
23 </synopsis>
24 <product type="ebuild">keepalived</product>
25 <announced>July 09, 2012</announced>
26 <revised>July 09, 2012: 1</revised>
27 <bug>371469</bug>
28 <access>local</access>
29 <affected>
30 <package name="sys-cluster/keepalived" auto="yes" arch="*">
31 <unaffected range="ge">1.2.2-r3</unaffected>
32 <vulnerable range="lt">1.2.2-r3</vulnerable>
33 </package>
34 </affected>
35 <background>
36 <p>Keepalived is a strong &amp; robust keepalive facility to the Linux
37 Virtual Server project.
38 </p>
39 </background>
40 <description>
41 <p>The "pidfile_write()" function in pidfile.c in Keepalived writes PID
42 files with insecure permissions.
43 </p>
44 </description>
45 <impact type="normal">
46 <p>A local attacker may be able to cause a Denial of Service of arbitrary
47 processes.
48 </p>
49 </impact>
50 <workaround>
51 <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
52 </workaround>
53 <resolution>
54 <p>All Keepalived users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
55
56 <code>
57 # emerge --sync
58 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-cluster/keepalived-1.2.2-r3"
59 </code>
60 </resolution>
61 <references>
62 <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1784">CVE-2011-1784</uri>
63 </references>
64 <metadata timestamp="Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:50:31 +0000" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
65 <metadata timestamp="Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:28:51 +0000" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
66 </glsa>