CVE-2011-4339

CVE Details

Release Date:	2011-12-13
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

ipmievd (aka the IPMI event daemon) in OpenIPMI, as used in the ipmitool package 1.8.11 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora 16, and other products uses 0666 permissions for its ipmievd.pid PID file, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing to this file.

See more information about CVE-2011-4339 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.7
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (OpenIPMI)	ELSA-2013-0123	2013-01-11
Oracle Linux version 6 (ipmitool)	ELSA-2011-1814	2011-12-16
Oracle VM version 3.2 (OpenIPMI)	OVMSA-2016-0068	2016-06-20