Executive Summary

Summary
Title Rootkit Hunter: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Informations
Name GLSA-201805-11 First vendor Publication 2018-05-26
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-05-26
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:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been found in Rootkit Hunter that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Background

Scans for known and unknown rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers.

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in Rootkit Hunter that allows the downloading of mirror updates over insecure channels (HTTP).
Furthermore, the mirror update is then executed in Bash.

Impact

A remote attacker, by performing a man-in-the-middle attack, could execute arbitrary code, conduct a Denial of Service, or have other unspecified impacts.

Workaround

Users are advised to not trust insecure protocols such as HTTP and to turn off any mirror updates utilizing such channels.

Resolution

All Rootkit Hunter users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-forensics/rkhunter-1.4.6"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-7480 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7480

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-11

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201805-11.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-417 Channel and Path Errors

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-05-29 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201805-11.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1039.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-05-26 21:19:03
  • First insertion