gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201405-28.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201405-28">
  <title>xmonad-contrib: Arbitrary code execution</title>
  <synopsis>A remote command injection vulnerability has been discovered in
    xmonad-contrib.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">xmonad-contrib</product>
  <announced>2014-05-28</announced>
  <revised count="1">2014-05-28</revised>
  <bug>478288</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="x11-wm/xmonad-contrib" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.11.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.11.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>xmonad-contrib is a set of third party tiling algorithms,
      configurations, and scripts for xmonad.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A vulnerability in the Xmonad.Hooks.DynamicLog module could allow a
      malicious website with a specially crafted title to inject commands into
      the title bar which would be executed when the bar is clicked.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker 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 xmonad-contrib users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=x11-wm/xmonad-contrib-0.11.2"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1436">CVE-2013-1436</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2014-02-27T13:53:05Z">
    pinkbyte
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-05-28T06:50:25Z">
    pinkbyte
  </metadata>
</glsa>