metadata/glsa/glsa-202101-11.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202101-11">
  <title>Zabbix: Root privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Gentoo's ebuild for
    Zabbix which could lead to root privilege escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">zabbix</product>
  <announced>2021-01-21</announced>
  <revised count="1">2021-01-21</revised>
  <bug>629882</bug>
  <bug>629884</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/zabbix" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge" slot="0/3.0">3.0.30</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="ge" slot="0/4.0">4.0.18</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.4.6</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Zabbix is software for monitoring applications, networks, and servers.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>It was discovered that Gentoo’s Zabbix ebuild did not properly set
      permissions or placed the pid file in an unsafe directory.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker could escalate privileges.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Zabbix 3.0.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      "&gt;=net-analyzer/zabbix-3.0.30:0/3.0"
    </code>
    
    <p>All Zabbix  4.0.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      "&gt;=net-analyzer/zabbix-4.0.18:0/4.0"
    </code>
    
    <p>All other Zabbix users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-analyzer/zabbix-4.4.6"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-04-16T06:25:12Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2021-01-21T19:18:35Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>