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authorV3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org>2017-10-09 18:53:29 +0100
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201412-15">
+ <title>MCollective: Privilege escalation</title>
+ <synopsis>Two vulnerabilities have been found in MCollective, the worst of
+ which could lead to privilege escalation.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">mcollective</product>
+ <announced>2014-12-13</announced>
+ <revised>2014-12-13: 1</revised>
+ <bug>513292</bug>
+ <bug>517286</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-admin/mcollective" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.5.3</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.5.3</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>MCollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job
+ execution systems.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>Two vulnerabilities have been found in MCollective:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>An untrusted search path vulnerability exists in MCollective
+ (CVE-2014-3248)
+ </li>
+ <li>MCollective does not properly validate server certificates
+ (CVE-2014-3251)
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A local attacker can execute arbitrary a Trojan horse shared library,
+ potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution and privilege
+ escalation. Furthermore, a local attacker may be able to establish
+ unauthorized MCollective connections.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All MCollective users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-admin/mcollective-2.5.3"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3248">CVE-2014-3248</uri>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3251">CVE-2014-3251</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2014-07-22T21:26:18Z">K_F</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-12-13T17:06:37Z">ackle</metadata>
+</glsa>