GLSA 202412-11: OATH Toolkit: Privilege Escalation

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Severity:	high
Title:	OATH Toolkit: Privilege Escalation
Date:	12/07/2024
Bugs:	#940778
ID:	202412-11

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been discovered in OATH Toolkit, which could lead to local root privilege escalation.

Background

OATH Toolkit provide components to build one-time password authentication systems. It contains shared C libraries, command line tools and a PAM module. Supported technologies include the event-based HOTP algorithm (RFC 4226), the time-based TOTP algorithm (RFC 6238), and Portable Symmetric Key Container (PSKC, RFC 6030) to manage secret key data. OATH stands for Open AuTHentication, which is the organization that specify the algorithms.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
sys-auth/oath-toolkit	< 2.6.12	>= 2.6.12	All supported architectures

Description

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

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifier for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All OATH Toolkit users should upgrade to the latest version:

          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-auth/oath-toolkit-2.6.12"

References

CVE-2024-47191

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-202412-11.xml

Concerns?

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