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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-8446: OSSEC: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-8446: OSSEC: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/30/2020
Created
07/28/2020
Added
07/28/2020
Modified
07/28/2020

Description

In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component responsible for log analysis (ossec-analysisd) is vulnerable to path traversal (with write access) via crafted syscheck messages written directly to the analysisd UNIX domain socket by a local user.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-analyzer-ossec-hids

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