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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.70695
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2376-2)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ipmitool' package(s) announced via the DSA-2376-2 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ipmitool' package(s) announced via the DSA-2376-2 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that OpenIPMI, the Intelligent Platform Management Interface library and tools, used too wide permissions PID file, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing to this file.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.9-2+squeeze1. (Although the version number contains the string squeeze, this is in fact an update for lenny.)

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.11-2+squeeze2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.11-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your ipmitool packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'ipmitool' package(s) on Debian 5.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
3.6

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-4339
47173
http://secunia.com/advisories/47173
47228
http://secunia.com/advisories/47228
47376
http://secunia.com/advisories/47376
51036
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51036
DSA-2376
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2376
FEDORA-2011-17065
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071580.html
FEDORA-2011-17071
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071575.html
MDVSA-2011:196
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:196
RHSA-2011:1814
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1814.html
RHSA-2013:0123
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0123.html
[oss-security] 20111213 OpenIPMI: IPMI event daemon creates PID file with world writeable permissions
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/13/1
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742837
impitool-pid-dos(71763)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71763
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