Bug 635702

Summary:	<dev-db/percona-server-5.6.37.82.2-r1: root privilege escalation via "chown"
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) <whissi>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	mysql-bugs
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	~1 [noglsa cve]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	630822

Description Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-10-28 17:48:01 UTC

This package uses eclasses which were vulnerable to root privilege escalation via "chown", see bug 630822 for details. The eclasses were fixed, however a rev bump is required to ensure that the vulnerability is completely removed.

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2017-10-28 18:11:20 UTC

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=cf74863f8b3c68b028ed8ae8f33e920573c905d8

commit cf74863f8b3c68b028ed8ae8f33e920573c905d8
Author:     Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2017-10-28 18:02:07 +0000
Commit:     Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2017-10-28 18:10:46 +0000

    dev-db/percona-server: Rev bump to fix CVE-2017-15945
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/635702
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.13, Repoman-2.3.4

 .../percona-server-5.6.37.82.2-r1.ebuild           | 219 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 219 insertions(+)}

Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-10-28 18:16:48 UTC

All done, repository is clean.

Added to an existing GLSA request.

Comment 3 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-10-28 18:20:58 UTC

Not added to GLSA, package was never stable.