Insecure Permissions for ipmievd.pid File in OpenIPMI

CVE-2011-4339 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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.

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