<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201904-05"> <title>BURP: Root privilege escalation</title> <synopsis>A vulnerability was discovered in Gentoo's ebuild for BURP which could lead to root privilege escalation. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">burp</product> <announced>2019-04-02</announced> <revised count="1">2019-04-02</revised> <bug>641842</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="app-backup/burp" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.1.32-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.1.32-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>A network backup and restore program.</p> </background> <description> <p>It was discovered that Gentoo’s BURP ebuild does not properly set permissions or place the pid file in a safe directory. Additionally, the first set of patches did not completely address this. As such, a revision has been made available that addresses all concerns of the initial report. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A local attacker could escalate privileges.</p> </impact> <workaround> <p>Users should ensure the proper permissions are set as discussed in the referenced bugs. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All BURP users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-backup/burp-2.1.32-r1" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18285">CVE-2017-18285</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-03-27T01:35:48Z">BlueKnight</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-04-02T04:23:38Z">b-man</metadata> </glsa>