USN-3300-1: juju-core vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3300-1

26th May, 2017

juju-core vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

The system could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Software description

• juju-core - next generation service orchestration system

Details

Ryan Beisner discovered juju did not set permissions on a Unix domain
socket. A local attacker could use this flaw to gain administrative
privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.04:

juju 2.0.2-0ubuntu2.1

juju-2.0 2.0.2-0ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 16.10:

juju 2.0.2-0ubuntu0.16.10.2

juju-2.0 2.0.2-0ubuntu0.16.10.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

juju 2.0.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

juju-2.0 2.0.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

juju 1.25.6-0ubuntu1.14.04.2

juju-core 1.25.6-0ubuntu1.14.04.2

juju-local 1.25.6-0ubuntu1.14.04.2

juju-local-kvm 1.25.6-0ubuntu1.14.04.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

After a standard system update you need to restart juju-core to make
all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2017-9232

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/2rZnAQG