<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201805-11"> <title>Rootkit Hunter: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title> <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in Rootkit Hunter that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">rkhunter</product> <announced>2018-05-26</announced> <revised count="1">2018-05-26</revised> <bug>623150</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="app-forensics/rkhunter" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.4.6</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.6</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>Scans for known and unknown rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers.</p> </background> <description> <p>A vulnerability was discovered in Rootkit Hunter that allows the downloading of mirror updates over insecure channels (HTTP). Furthermore, the mirror update is then executed in Bash. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A remote attacker, by performing a man-in-the-middle attack, could execute arbitrary code, conduct a Denial of Service, or have other unspecified impacts. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>Users are advised to not trust insecure protocols such as HTTP and to turn off any mirror updates utilizing such channels. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All Rootkit Hunter users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-forensics/rkhunter-1.4.6" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7480">CVE-2017-7480</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-05-26T14:19:37Z">b-man</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-05-26T15:45:59Z">b-man</metadata> </glsa>