gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201701-55.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201701-55">
  <title>DirectFB: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in DirectFB, all of which
    could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">directfb</product>
  <announced>2017-01-23</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-01-23</revised>
  <bug>510472</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/DirectFB" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.7.5</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.7.5</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>DirectFB (Direct Frame Buffer) is a set of graphics APIs implemented on
      top of the Linux Frame Buffer (fbdev) abstraction layer.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in DirectFB. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Remote attackers could cause a Denial of Service condition or execute
      arbitrary code via the Voodoo interface.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All DirectFB users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/DirectFB-1.7.5"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2977">CVE-2014-2977</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2978">CVE-2014-2978</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-01-18T08:12:23Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-01-23T03:38:25Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>