USN-3462-1: Pacemaker vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• pacemaker - Cluster resource manager

Details

Jan Pokorný and Alain Moulle discovered that Pacemaker incorrectly handled
the IPC interface. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to
execute arbitrary code with root privileges. (CVE-2016-7035)

Alain Moulle discovered that Pacemaker incorrectly handled authentication.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to shut down connections,
leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2016-7797)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04

• pacemaker - 1.1.14-2ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 14.04

• pacemaker - 1.1.10+git20130802-1ubuntu2.4

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2016-7035
• CVE-2016-7797