CVE-2011-4339 Information

Description

ipmievd (aka the IPMI event daemon) in OpenIPMI as used in the ipmitool package 1.8.11 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 Debian GNU/Linux Fedora 16 and other products uses 0666 permissions for its ipmievd.pid PID file which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing to this file.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071575.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071580.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/13/1 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0123.html http://secunia.com/advisories/47173 http://secunia.com/advisories/47228 http://secunia.com/advisories/47376 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2376 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:196 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1814.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51036 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 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71763