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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200806-05">
<title>cbrPager: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
<synopsis>
Insecure filename usage in cbrPager may allow for the remote execution of
arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">cbrpager</product>
<announced>2008-06-16</announced>
<revised count="01">2008-06-16</revised>
<bug>223657</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-misc/cbrpager" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.9.17</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.9.17</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
cbrPager is a comic book pager.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Mamoru Tasaka discovered that filenames of the image archives are not
properly sanitized before being passed to decompression utilities like
unrar and unzip, which use the system() libc library call.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A remote attacker could entice a user to open an archive with a
specially crafted filename, resulting in arbitrary code execution with
the privileges of the user running the application.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All cbrPager users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-misc/cbrpager-0.9.17"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2575">CVE-2008-2575</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-05-28T17:48:23Z">
keytoaster
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-06-03T15:18:59Z">
vorlon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-06-14T21:12:52Z">
p-y
</metadata>
</glsa>