CVE-2011-4954

Advisory

Cobbler 2.6.0 includes a fix for CVE-2011-4954: Cobbler has local privilege escalation via the use of insecure location for PYTHON_EGG_CACHE.
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/commit/3c97edff9f8453536ae5adfe930a8b084b5e4346

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

cobbler has local privilege escalation via the use of insecure location for PYTHON_EGG_CACHE


MISC:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/12/10: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/12/10
MISC:https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-4954: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-4954
MISC:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4954: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4954
MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4954: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4954
MISC:https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4954: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4954

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4954
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4954
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4954
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-4954
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4954
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/12/10