Bug 605008 – <www-servers/nginx-{1.10.2-r3,1.11.6-r1}: root privilege escalation (CVE-2016-1247)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2017-01-07 23:24:29 UTC]

It was discovered that the default installation of www-servers/nginx on
Gentoo sets similar problematic permissions like Debian on "/var/log/nginx"
and is therefore vulnerable to the same potentially root privilege
escalation described in CVE-2016-1247 [1].

[1] https://legalhackers.com/advisories/Nginx-Exploit-Deb-Root-PrivEsc-CVE-2016-1247.html

[Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2017-01-07 23:34:51 UTC]

Fixed ebuilds are now in repository, https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=7e9a4ebc9ca7bb35814cacf85c9a28cdab6fdf9f


@ Arches,

please test and mark stable: =www-servers/nginx-1.10.2-r3

[Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo 2017-01-10 14:57:06 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo 2017-01-10 15:27:09 UTC]

x86 stable.

Maintainer(s), please cleanup.
Security, please add it to the existing request, or file a new one.

[Comment 4 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2017-01-10 15:36:05 UTC]

Cleaned up via 688c54e5f570cfe816f69f5452817a320427474a

New GLSA request filed.

[Comment 5 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2017-01-11 12:22:21 UTC]

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201701-22 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-22
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).