GLSA 202209-08: Smokeping: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Smokeping: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	09/25/2022
Bugs:	#631140, #602652
ID:	202209-08

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smokeping, the worst of which could result in root privilege escalation.

Background

Smokeping is a powerful latency measurement tool

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-analyzer/smokeping	<= 2.7.3-r1		All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smokeping. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A local attacker which gains access to the smokeping user could gain root privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

Gentoo has discontinued support for Smokeping. We recommend that users remove it:

          # emerge --ask --depclean "net-analyzer/smokeping"

References

CVE-2017-20147

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-202209-08.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.