GLSA 201412-15: MCollective: Privilege escalation

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Severity:	normal
Title:	MCollective: Privilege escalation
Date:	12/13/2014
Bugs:	#513292, #517286
ID:	201412-15

Synopsis

Two vulnerabilities have been found in MCollective, the worst of which could lead to privilege escalation.

Background

MCollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-admin/mcollective	< 2.5.3	>= 2.5.3	All supported architectures

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been found in MCollective:

An untrusted search path vulnerability exists in MCollective (CVE-2014-3248)
MCollective does not properly validate server certificates (CVE-2014-3251)

Impact

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.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All MCollective users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/mcollective-2.5.3"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-15.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.