Munin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background

Munin is an open source server monitoring tool.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Munin. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application.

A remote attacker could create files or load new Munin configuration files.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Munin users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/munin-2.0.8-r2"