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<glsa id="200611-08">
  <title>RPM: Buffer overflow</title>
  <synopsis>
    RPM is vulnerable to a buffer overflow and possibly the execution of
    arbitrary code when opening specially crafted packages.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">rpm</product>
  <announced>November 13, 2006</announced>
  <revised>November 13, 2006: 01</revised>
  <bug>154218</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-arch/rpm" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.4.6-r3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.4.6-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    The Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) is a command line driven package
    management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying,
    querying, and updating computer software packages.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Vladimir Mosgalin has reported that when processing certain packages,
    RPM incorrectly allocates memory for the packages, possibly causing a
    heap-based buffer overflow.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted RPM package
    and execute code with the privileges of that user if certain locales
    are set.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All RPM users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-arch/rpm-4.4.6-r3&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5466">CVE-2006-5466</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:03:12 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:11:11 +0000">
    shellsage
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:44:27 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
</glsa>