gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201707-09.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201707-09">
  <title>GNOME applet for NetworkManager: Arbitrary file read/write</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in GNOME applet for NetworkManager
    allowing local attackers to access the local filesystem.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">nm-applet</product>
  <announced>2017-07-08</announced>
  <revised count="2">2017-08-06</revised>
  <bug>613768</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="gnome-extra/nm-applet" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.4.6-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.6-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>GNOME applet for NetworkManager is a GTK+ 3 front-end which works under
      Xorg environments with a systray.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Frederic Bardy and Quentin Biguenet discovered that GNOME applet for
      NetworkManager incorrectly checked permissions when connecting to certain
      wireless networks.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker could bypass security restrictions at the login screen
      to access local files.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All GNOME applet for NetworkManager users should upgrade to the latest
      version:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=gnome-extra/nm-applet-1.4.6-r1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-6590">CVE-2017-6590</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-04-02T12:44:50Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-08-06T11:10:08Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>