gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201811-22.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201811-22">
  <title>RPM: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in RPM, the worst of which
    could allow a remote attacker to escalate privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">rpm</product>
  <announced>2018-11-28</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-11-28</revised>
  <bug>533740</bug>
  <bug>638636</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-arch/rpm" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.14.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.14.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>The Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) is a command line driven package
      management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying,
      querying, and updating computer software packages.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in RPM. Please review the
      CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker, by enticing the user to process a specially crafted
      RPM file, could escalate privileges, execute arbitrary code, or cause a
      Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All RPM users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-arch/rpm-4.14.1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6435">CVE-2013-6435</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8118">CVE-2014-8118</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7501">CVE-2017-7501</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-11-25T01:24:35Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-11-28T22:52:35Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>