Executive Summary

Summary
Title hesiod: Root privilege escalation
Informations
Name GLSA-201805-01 First vendor Publication 2018-05-02
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-05-02
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability was discovered in hesiod which may allow remote attackers to gain root privileges.

Background

DNS functionality to access to DB of information that changes infrequently.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in hesiod that have remained unaddressed. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Impact

A remote or local attacker may be able to escalate privileges to root.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

Gentoo has discontinued support for hesiod and recommends that users unmerge the package:
# emerge --unmerge "net-dns/hesiod"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-10151 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10151
[ 2 ] CVE-2016-10152 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10152

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-01

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201805-01.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-2b274689e8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-792ff3cafa.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-25c6d1b417.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-03 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201805-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-05-03 05:17:19
  • First insertion