SB2020012105 - Race condition in Gentoo Portage
Published: January 21, 2020 Updated: May 25, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020012105
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-20384)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition. A local user can place a Trojan horse plugin in the "/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins" directory by leveraging access to the nagios user account, because this directory
is writable in between a call to emake and a call to fowners.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.