3.6 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
---|---|---|---|
ipmitool | eq | 1.8.11-2 | |
ipmitool | eq | 1.8.11-2+squeeze1 |