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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201805-11">
+ <title>Rootkit Hunter: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in Rootkit Hunter that allows a
+ remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">rkhunter</product>
+ <announced>2018-05-26</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2018-05-26</revised>
+ <bug>623150</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-forensics/rkhunter" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.4.6</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.6</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>Scans for known and unknown rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>A vulnerability was discovered in Rootkit Hunter that allows the
+ downloading of mirror updates over insecure channels (HTTP).
+ Furthermore, the mirror update is then executed in Bash.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A remote attacker, by performing a man-in-the-middle attack, could
+ execute arbitrary code, conduct a Denial of Service, or have other
+ unspecified impacts.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>Users are advised to not trust insecure protocols such as HTTP and to
+ turn off any mirror updates utilizing such channels.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All Rootkit Hunter users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-forensics/rkhunter-1.4.6"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7480">CVE-2017-7480</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-05-26T14:19:37Z">b-man</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-05-26T15:45:59Z">b-man</metadata>
+</glsa>