CVE-2011-4339

LOW 3.6CVE-2011-4339 · Published 15/12/2011 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2011-4339 is a LOW (CVSS 3.6) vulnerability affecting ipmitool (ipmitool project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.43%, higher than 36.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ipmitool ipmitool_project	`= 1.8.11`	No fix yet

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.

References

lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071575.html · Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071580.html · Third Party Advisory
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/13/1 · Mailing List
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0123.html · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/47173 · Broken Link
secunia.com/advisories/47228 · Broken Link
secunia.com/advisories/47376 · Broken Link
debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2376 · Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com/security/advisories · Broken Link
oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html · Third Party Advisory
redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1814.html · Third Party Advisory

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