metadata/glsa/glsa-201206-36.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201206-36">
  <title>logrotate: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in logrotate, which could lead
    to arbitrary system command execution.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">logrotate</product>
  <announced>June 25, 2012</announced>
  <revised>June 25, 2012: 1</revised>
  <bug>356811</bug>
  <bug>372973</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-admin/logrotate" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.8.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.8.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>logrotate rotates, compresses, and mails system logs.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in logrotate. Please
      review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A local attacker could use this flaw to truncate arbitrary system file,
      to change file owner or mode on arbitrary system files, to conduct
      symlink attacks and send arbitrary system files, to execute arbitrary
      system commands, to cause abort in subsequent logrotate runs, to disclose
      sensitive information, to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of
      Service condition.
    </p>
    
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All logrotate users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-admin/logrotate-3.8.0"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1098">CVE-2011-1098</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1154">CVE-2011-1154</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1155">CVE-2011-1155</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1549">CVE-2011-1549</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:37:29 +0000" tag="requester">
    underling
  </metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:17:59 +0000" tag="submitter">craig</metadata>
</glsa>