gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201612-31.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201612-31">
  <title>exFAT: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Two vulnerabilities have been found in exFAT allowing remote
    attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild"/>
  <announced>2016-12-12</announced>
  <revised count="1">2016-12-12</revised>
  <bug>563936</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-fs/exfat-utils" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.2.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.2.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>A full-featured exFAT file system implementation for Unix-like systems.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Two vulnerabilities were found in exFAT. A malformed input can cause a
      write heap overflow or cause an endless loop.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Remote attackers could execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of
      Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All exFAT users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-fs/exfat-utils-1.2.1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-8026">CVE-2015-8026</uri>
    <uri link="https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/25-Heap-overflow-and-endless-loop-in-exfatfsck-exfat-utils.html">
      Heap overflow and endless loop in exfatfsck / exfat-utils
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-12-31T02:26:18Z">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-12T00:14:52Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>