Keepalived: Denial of service — GLSA 201207-07

Keepalived uses world-writable PID files, allowing a local attacker to kill arbitrary processes.

Package	sys-cluster/keepalived on all architectures
Affected versions	< 1.2.2-r3
Unaffected versions	>= 1.2.2-r3

Keepalived is a strong & robust keepalive facility to the Linux Virtual Server project.

The "pidfile_write()" function in pidfile.c in Keepalived writes PID files with insecure permissions.

A local attacker may be able to cause a Denial of Service of arbitrary processes.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Keepalived users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-cluster/keepalived-1.2.2-r3"

Release date
July 09, 2012

Latest revision
July 09, 2012: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
local

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