<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201311-19"> <title>rssh: Access restriction bypass</title> <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in rssh, allowing local attackers to bypass access restrictions. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">rssh</product> <announced>November 28, 2013</announced> <revised>November 28, 2013: 1</revised> <bug>415255</bug> <bug>445166</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="app-shells/rssh" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.3.4</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.3.4</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>rssh is a restricted shell, allowing only a few commands like scp or sftp. It is often used as a complement to OpenSSH to provide limited access to users. </p> </background> <description> <p>Multiple command line parsing and validation vulnerabilities have been discovered in rssh. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>Multiple parsing and validation vulnerabilities can cause the restrictions set up by rssh to be bypassed. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All rssh users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-shells/rssh-2.3.4" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-2252"> CVE-2012-2252 </uri> <uri link="http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-3478"> CVE-2012-3478 </uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:16:31 +0000"> underling </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 28 Nov 2013 08:18:46 +0000"> BlueKnight </metadata> </glsa>