CVE-2011-4339

Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-12-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-732

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.

Affected products

Ipmitool Project Ipmitool: 1.8.11

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071575.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071580.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/13/1
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0123.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/47173
http://secunia.com/advisories/47228
http://secunia.com/advisories/47376
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2376
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:196
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1814.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51036

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