gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200612-13.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200612-13">
  <title>libgsf: Buffer overflow</title>
  <synopsis>
    libgsf improperly allocates memory allowing for a heap overflow and
    possibly the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libgsf</product>
  <announced>2006-12-12</announced>
  <revised count="01">2006-12-12</revised>
  <bug>156693</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="gnome-extra/libgsf" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.14.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.14.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    The GNOME Structured File Library is an I/O library that can read and
    write common file types and handle structured formats that provide
    file-system-in-a-file semantics.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    "infamous41md" has discovered that the "ole_init_info" function may
    allocate too little memory for storing the contents of an OLE document,
    resulting in a heap buffer overflow.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted OLE
    document, and possibly execute arbitrary code with the rights of the
    user opening the document.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All libgsf users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.2"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4514">CVE-2006-4514</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-12-10T19:48:29Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-12-10T20:34:33Z">
    vorlon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-12-11T18:08:22Z">
    shellsage
  </metadata>
</glsa>