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GLSA-201709-11 : GIMPS: Root privilege escalation

high Nessus Plugin ID 103279

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Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201709-11 (GIMPS: Root privilege escalation)

 It was discovered that Gentoo’s default GIMPS installation suffered from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the init script. This script calls an unsafe “chown -R” command in checkconfig() function.
 Impact :

 A local attacker who does not belong to the root group, but has the ability to modify the /var/lib/gimps directory can escalate privileges to the root group.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All GIMPS users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=sci-mathematics/gimps-28.10-r1'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-11

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 103279

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201709-11.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Published: 9/18/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:gimps, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14484

GLSA: 201709-11