metadata/glsa/glsa-201709-01.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201709-01">
  <title>MCollective: Remote Code Execution</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in MCollective might allow remote attackers to
    execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">mcollective</product>
  <announced>2017-09-04</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-09-04</revised>
  <bug>624704</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-admin/mcollective" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.11.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.11.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>MCollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job
      execution systems.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A vulnerability was discovered in MCollective which allowed for
      deserialized YAML from agents without calling safe_load. This allows the
      potential for arbitrary code execution on the server.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
      privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All MCollective users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-admin/mcollective-2.11.0"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-2292">CVE-2017-2292</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-08-26T22:18:27Z">Zlogene</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-09-04T22:33:20Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>