GLSA 201110-18: rgmanager: Privilege escalation

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Severity:	normal
Title:	rgmanager: Privilege escalation
Date:	10/22/2011
Bugs:	#352213
ID:	201110-18

Synopsis

A vulnerability was found in rgmanager, allowing for privilege escalation.

Background

rgmanager is a clustered resource group manager.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
sys-cluster/rgmanager	< 2.03.09-r1	>= 2.03.09-r1	All supported architectures

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in rgmanager. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Impact

A local attacker could gain escalated privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All rgmanager users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      ">=sys-cluster/rgmanager-2.03.09-r1"

References

CVE-2010-3389

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201110-18.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.