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<glsa id="201412-15">
  <title>MCollective: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>Two vulnerabilities have been found in MCollective, the worst of
    which could lead to privilege escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">mcollective</product>
  <announced>2014-12-13</announced>
  <revised count="1">2014-12-13</revised>
  <bug>513292</bug>
  <bug>517286</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-admin/mcollective" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.5.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.5.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>MCollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job
      execution systems.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Two vulnerabilities have been found in MCollective:</p>
    
    <ul>
      <li>An untrusted search path vulnerability exists in MCollective
        (CVE-2014-3248)
      </li>
      <li>MCollective does not properly validate server certificates
        (CVE-2014-3251)
      </li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker can execute arbitrary a Trojan horse shared library,
      potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution and privilege
      escalation. Furthermore, a local attacker may be able to establish
      unauthorized MCollective connections.
    </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-2.5.3"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3248">CVE-2014-3248</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3251">CVE-2014-3251</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2014-07-22T21:26:18Z">K_F</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-12-13T17:06:37Z">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>
