CVE-2017-7480 (GCVE-0-2017-7480)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-07-21 22:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:16
VLAI
Summary
rkhunter versions before 1.4.4 are vulnerable to file download over insecure channel when doing mirror update resulting into potential remote code execution.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/643 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-11 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat, Inc. rkhunter Affected: before 1.4.4
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Date Public
2017-06-29 00:00
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