gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-202310-15.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202310-15">
    <title>USBView: root privilege escalation via insecure polkit settings</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in usbview where certain users can trigger a privilege escalation.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">usbview</product>
    <announced>2023-10-26</announced>
    <revised count="1">2023-10-26</revised>
    <bug>831756</bug>
    <access>local</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="app-admin/usbview" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">2.2</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">2.2</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>USBView is a tool to display the topology of devices on the USB bus.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>A vulnerability has been discovered in usbview. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="high">
        <p>USBView allows some local users (e.g., ones logged in via SSH) to execute arbitrary code as root because certain Polkit settings (e.g., allow_any=yes) for pkexec disable the authentication requirement. Code execution can, for example, use the --gtk-module option.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All USBView users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/usbview-2.2"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23220">CVE-2022-23220</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2023-10-26T04:41:42.430938Z">graaff</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2023-10-26T04:41:42.434826Z">graaff</metadata>
</glsa>