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GLSA-202101-11 : Zabbix: Root privilege escalation

medium Nessus Plugin ID 145256

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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-202101-11 (Zabbix: Root privilege escalation)

 It was discovered that Gentoo’s Zabbix ebuild did not properly set permissions or placed the pid file in an unsafe directory.
 Impact :

 A local attacker could escalate privileges.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Zabbix 3.0.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-analyzer/zabbix-3.0.30:0/3.0' All Zabbix 4.0.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-analyzer/zabbix-4.0.18:0/4.0' All other Zabbix users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-analyzer/zabbix-4.4.6'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-11

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 145256

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202101-11.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/22/2021

Updated: 1/22/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/21/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2021

Reference Information

GLSA: 202101-11