Gentoo: GLSA-201903-01 Normal: Keepalived Denial of Service Alerts
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March 10, 2019
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Keepalived, the worst of which could allow an attacker to cause Denial of Service condition.
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in keepalived. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
Topics Covered
Resolution
All Keepalived users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-cluster/keepalived-2.0.10"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2018-19044 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19044 [ 2 ] CVE-2018-19045 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19045 [ 3 ] CVE-2018-19046 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19046 [ 4 ] CVE-2018-19115 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19115
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-01
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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.
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Severity: Normal
Title: Keepalived: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: March 10, 2019
Bugs: #670856
ID: 201903-01
Topics Covered
Background
Keepalived is a strong & robust keepalive facility to the Linux Virtual
Server project.
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Affected Packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 sys-cluster/keepalived < 2.0.10 >= 2.0.10
Impact
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A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request possibly
resulting in a Denial of Service condition. A local attacker could
perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the
privileges of the user running the application.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
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