gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201206-08.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201206-08">
  <title>Wicd: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Wicd, the worst of
    which might allow execution of arbitrary code as root.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">wicd</product>
  <announced>2012-06-21</announced>
  <revised count="1">2012-06-21</revised>
  <bug>401005</bug>
  <bug>411729</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/wicd" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.7.2.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.7.2.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Two vulnerabilities have been found in Wicd:</p>
    
    <ul>
      <li>Passwords and passphrases are written to /var/log/wicd
        (CVE-2012-0813).
      </li>
      <li>Input from the daemon's D-Bus interface is not properly sanitized
        (CVE-2012-2095).
      </li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A local attacker could gain privileges of the root user or obtain
      sensitive information.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Wicd users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/wicd-1.7.2.1"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0813">CVE-2012-0813</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2095">CVE-2012-2095</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="2012-04-15T04:06:17Z" tag="requester">
    underling
  </metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="2012-06-21T10:10:59Z" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>