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Gentoo: GLSA-201412-45 High: Facter Privilege Escalation Risk

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Calendar Grey December 26, 2014
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Critical vulnerability discovered in Facter on Gentoo; immediate measures needed to enhance protection.
An untrusted search path vulnerability in Facter could lead to local privilege escalation.

Summary

Facter includes the current working directory in the search path.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity privilege escalation local attack Facter

Resolution

All Facter users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-ruby/facter-1.7.6"

References

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

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201412-45
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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: High
Title: Facter: Privilege escalation
Date: December 26, 2014
Bugs: #514476
ID: 201412-45

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity privilege escalation local attack Facter

Synopsis

An untrusted search path vulnerability in Facter could lead to local privilege escalation.

Background

Facter is a cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from operating systems.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-ruby/facter < 1.7.6 >= 1.7.6

Impact

===== A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.