glsa-202209-08.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202209-08">
    <title>Smokeping: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
    <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smokeping, the worst of which could result in root privilege escalation.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">smokeping</product>
    <announced>2022-09-25</announced>
    <revised count="1">2022-09-25</revised>
    <bug>631140</bug>
    <bug>602652</bug>
    <access>local</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="net-analyzer/smokeping" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <vulnerable range="le">2.7.3-r1</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>Smokeping is a powerful latency measurement tool</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smokeping. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="normal">
        <p>A local attacker which gains access to the smokeping user could gain root privileges.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>Gentoo has discontinued support for Smokeping. We recommend that users remove it:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --ask --depclean "net-analyzer/smokeping"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-20147">CVE-2017-20147</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2022-09-25T13:34:27.263575Z">ajak</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2022-09-25T13:34:27.268533Z">ajak</metadata>
</glsa>