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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="202209-08">
+ <title>Smokeping: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
+ <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smokeping, the worst of which could result in root privilege escalation.</synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">smokeping</product>
+ <announced>2022-09-25</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2022-09-25</revised>
+ <bug>631140</bug>
+ <bug>602652</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-analyzer/smokeping" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <vulnerable range="le">2.7.3-r1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>Smokeping is a powerful latency measurement tool</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smokeping. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.</p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A local attacker which gains access to the smokeping user could gain root privileges.</p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>Gentoo has discontinued support for Smokeping. We recommend that users remove it:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --ask --depclean "net-analyzer/smokeping"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-20147">CVE-2017-20147</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2022-09-25T13:34:27.263575Z">ajak</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2022-09-25T13:34:27.268533Z">ajak</metadata>
+</glsa>