gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201811-18.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201811-18">
  <title>Tablib: Arbitrary command execution</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Tablib might allow remote attackers to execute
    arbitrary python commands.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">tablib</product>
  <announced>2018-11-27</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-11-27</revised>
  <bug>621884</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-python/tablib" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.12.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.12.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Tablib is an MIT Licensed format-agnostic tabular dataset library,
      written in Python. It allows you to import, export, and manipulate
      tabular data sets.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A vulnerability was discovered in Tablib’s Databook loading
      functionality, due to improper input validation.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker, by enticing the user to process a specially crafted
      Databook via YAML, could possibly execute arbitrary python commands with
      the privilege of the process.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Tablib users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-python/tablib-0.12.1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2810">CVE-2017-2810</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-11-24T22:46:04Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-11-27T02:02:33Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>