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Severity: Normal
Title: Smokeping: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: September 25, 2022
Bugs: #631140, #602562
ID: 202209-08

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Synopsis
========

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smokeping, the worst of
which could result in root privilege escalation.

Background
==========

Smokeping is a powerful latency measurement tool

Affected packages
=================

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-analyzer/smokeping <= 2.7.3-r1 Vulnerable!

Description
===========

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smokeping. Please
review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact
======

A local attacker which gains access to the smokeping user could gain
root privileges.

Workaround
==========

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
==========

Gentoo has discontinued support for Smokeping. We recommend that users
remove it:

# emerge --ask --depclean "net-analyzer/smokeping"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2017-20147
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-20147

Availability
============

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-08

Concerns?
=========

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2022 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5