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ipmitool — security advisory
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.
- Products
- ipmitool
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.8.11-5
- CVEs
- CVE-2011-4339
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:38 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4339
ipmitool
Fixed versions: 1.8.11-5
ipmitool
Fixed versions: 1.8.11-5
ipmitool
Fixed versions: 1.8.11-5
Complete source record
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"id": "40a73371d6a2d587bd33195bee378c0b11e1300b7a2a7ae71b28b016890dbd32",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4339",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4339",
"summary": "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.",
"evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4339",
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},
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"evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
}
],
"affected_versions": []
},
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},
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"severity": "unknown",
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"package": {
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"purl": "pkg:deb/debian/ipmitool?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
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},
"database_specific": {
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},
"ecosystem_specific": {
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}
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{
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"package": {
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"ecosystem": "Debian:13"
},
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},
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}
},
{
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],
"package": {
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},
"database_specific": {
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},
"ecosystem_specific": {
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:49.042438040Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
"CVE-2011-4339"
],
"references": [
"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4339"
]
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2011-4339",
"evidence": "/upstream"
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],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": null
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 419104,
"published_at": "2011-12-15T03:57:34.183+00:00"
}