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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201612-39.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201612-39">
<title>Bash: Arbitrary code execution</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability in Bash could potentially lead to arbitrary code
execution.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">bash</product>
<announced>2016-12-13</announced>
<revised count="2">2016-12-13</revised>
<bug>594496</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-shells/bash" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">4.3_p46-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">4.3_p46-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Bash is the standard GNU Bourne Again SHell.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>A vulnerability was found in the way Bash expands $HOSTNAME. Injecting
malicious code into $HOSTNAME could cause it to run each time Bash
expands \h in the prompt string.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote attacker controlling the systems hostname (i.e. via DHCP)
could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process,
or cause a Denial of
Service condition.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Bash users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-shells/bash-4.3_p46-r1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-0634">CVE-2016-0634</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-09-23T02:45:43Z">
BlueKnight
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-13T07:00:09Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>