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Gentoo: GLSA-201709-06 High: Supervisor Command Injection Issue

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Calendar Grey September 17, 2017
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Malicious entities might take advantage of a vulnerability in the Supervisor system on Gentoo, allowing them to execute arbitrary code remotely.
A vulnerability in Supervisor might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code

Summary

A vulnerability in Supervisor was discovered in which an authenticated client could send malicious XML-RPC requests and supervidord will run them as shell commands with process privileges. In some cases, supervisord is configured with root permissions.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity command injection Supervisor

Resolution

All Supervisor users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "=app-admin/supervisor-3.1.4"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-11610 https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-11610

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-06
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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: Supervisor: command injection vulnerability
Date: September 17, 2017
Bugs: #626100
ID: 201709-06

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity command injection Supervisor

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Supervisor might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Background

Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-admin/supervisor < 3.1.4 >= 3.1.4

Impact

===== A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.