Use After Free Affecting rra/remctl package, versions [,3.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RRAREMCTL-2366315
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Apr 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-0493  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade rra/remctl to version 3.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free remctld in remctl before 3.14, when an attacker is authorized to execute a command that uses the sudo option, has a use-after-free that leads to a daemon crash, memory corruption, or arbitrary command execution.

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