CVE-2014-3627 Information

Description

The YARN NodeManager daemon in Apache Hadoop 0.23.0 through 0.23.11 and 2.x before 2.5.2 when using Kerberos authentication allows remote cluster users to change the permissions of certain files to world-readable via a symlink attack in a public tar archive which is not properly handled during localization related to distributed cache.

Reference

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-general/201411.mbox/3CCALwhT97dOi04aC3VbekaB+zn2UAS_OZV2EAiP78GmjnMzfp2Ug@mail.gmail.com3E http://secunia.com/advisories/60079 http://secunia.com/advisories/60432