gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201903-11.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201903-11">
  <title>XRootD: Remote code execution</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability was discovered in XRootD which could lead to the
    remote execution of code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">xrootd</product>
  <announced>2019-03-14</announced>
  <revised count="1">2019-03-14</revised>
  <bug>638420</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-libs/xrootd" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.8.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.8.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>A project that aims at giving high performance, scalable, and fault
      tolerant access to data repositories of many kinds.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A shell command injection was discovered in XRootD.</p>
    
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All XRootD users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-libs/xrootd-4.8.3"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000215">
      CVE-2017-1000215
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-03-10T02:02:16Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-03-14T01:35:58Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>