Security Information / 2014 / Security Information -- DSA-2945-1 chkrootkit

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2945-1 chkrootkit -- security update

Date Reported:

03 Jun 2014

Affected Packages:

chkrootkit

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-0476.

More information:

Thomas Stangner discovered a vulnerability in chkrootkit, a rootkit detector, which may allow local attackers to gain root access when /tmp is mounted without the noexec option.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.49-4.1+deb7u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.49-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your chkrootkit packages.