Security
Security
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smokeping, the worst of which could result in root privilege escalation.
| Package | net-analyzer/smokeping on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | <= 2.7.3-r1 |
| Unaffected versions |
Smokeping is a powerful latency measurement tool
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smokeping. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
A local attacker which gains access to the smokeping user could gain root privileges.
There is no known workaround at this time.
Gentoo has discontinued support for Smokeping. We recommend that users remove it:
# emerge --ask --depclean "net-analyzer/smokeping"