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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201412-45">
  <title>Facter: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>An untrusted search path vulnerability in Facter could lead to
    local privilege escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">facter</product>
  <announced>December 26, 2014</announced>
  <revised>December 26, 2014: 1</revised>
  <bug>514476</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-ruby/facter" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.7.6</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.7.6</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Facter is a cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from
      operating systems.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Facter includes the current working directory in the search path.</p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Facter users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-ruby/facter-1.7.6"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3248">CVE-2014-3248</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 16 Aug 2014 21:34:38 +0000">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:59:01 +0000">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>