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Gentoo: 201412-15 Normal: MCollective Privilege Escalation Risk

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MCollective poses significant risks due to privilege escalation vulnerabilities. It is essential to update your Gentoo server to mitigate exposure to these known threats.
Two vulnerabilities have been found in MCollective, the worst of which could lead to privilege escalation.

Summary

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)

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Topics Covered

security advisory unauthorized access gentoo privilege escalation application security normal severity mcollective

Resolution

All MCollective users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/mcollective-2.5.3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-3248 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3248 [ 2 ] CVE-2014-3251 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3251

Availability

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

Severity: Normal
Title: MCollective: Privilege escalation
Date: December 13, 2014
Bugs: #513292, #517286
ID: 201412-15

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Topics Covered

security advisory unauthorized access gentoo privilege escalation application security normal severity mcollective

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.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-admin/mcollective < 2.5.3 >= 2.5.3

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.