CVE-2011-4339 Misconfiguration in n/a
Low 3.6
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2011-4339 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2011-4339 is a low-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 15 Dec 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-4339 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-4339/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-4339/index.md)
Local attackers can kill arbitrary processes by writing to the world-writable IPMI event daemon PID file, causing denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2011-4339?
CVE-2011-4339 is a low-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 15 Dec 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-732
Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-4339?
It affects 1 product.
Linux distribution packages (26)
OpenIPMI Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI-gui Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI-python Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI-tools Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI-gui Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI-python Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
OpenIPMI-tools Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.0.16-16.el5 |
ipmitool Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:1.8.11-12.el6_2.1 |
ipmitool-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:1.8.11-12.el6_2.1 |
ipmitool Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 0:1.8.11-12.el6_2.1 |
ipmitool-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 0:1.8.11-12.el6_2.1 |
ipmitool Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:1.8.11-12.el6_2.1 |
ipmitool-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:1.8.11-12.el6_2.1 |
ipmitool Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:1.8.11-12.el6_2.1 |
ipmitool-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:1.8.11-12.el6_2.1 |
Products include Ipmitool Project Ipmitool.
How do I fix CVE-2011-4339?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2011-4339 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-4339 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4339, DSA-2376-1, DSA-2376-2, GHSA-g5hf-fh87-v7gq, RHSA-2011:1814, RHSA-2013:0123.