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.
Published: 2011-12-15
Score: 3.6 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2376-1 ipmitool security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2376-2 ipmitool security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-4271 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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Ipmitool Project Ipmitool
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T00:01:51.650Z

Reserved: 2011-11-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-4339

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-12-15T03:57:34.183

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2011-4339

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2011-12-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-4339 - Bugzilla

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