CVE-2011-4339
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Description
ipmievd (aka the IPMI event daemon) in OpenIPMI, as used in the ipmitool package 1.8.11 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora 16, and other products uses 0666 permissions for its ipmievd.pid PID file, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing to this file.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Runs on — not affected
The affected product only carries this flaw when running on these platforms. The platforms themselves are not vulnerable.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071575.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071580.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0123.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2376
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:196
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