Bug 1365799 (CVE-2016-2788) - CVE-2016-2788 mcollective: Improper validation of fields in MCollective pings
Summary: CVE-2016-2788 mcollective: Improper validation of fields in MCollective pings
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-2788
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1365800 1365801 1374963
Blocks: 1365813
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Reported: 2016-08-10 08:54 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:27 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: mcollective 2.8.9
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Last Closed: 2016-09-11 02:15:00 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-08-10 08:54:50 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in mcollective. Remote code execution could be achieved due to improper field validation in 'mco ping' command.

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https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2788
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-08-10 08:55:50 UTC 
Created mcollective tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1365800]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1365801]
Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2016-09-11 02:15:00 UTC 
Statement:

This issue affects Red Hat Enterprise OpenShift 2. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A futur
e update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
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