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CVE-2011-4339 Detail

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.


Metrics

 
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071575.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071580.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/13/1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0123.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/47173 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/47228 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/47376 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2376 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:196 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1814.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51036 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742837 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71763 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2011-4339
NVD Published Date:
12/14/2011
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.