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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201201-04.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201201-04">
<title>Logsurfer: Arbitrary code execution</title>
<synopsis>A double-free flaw in Logsurfer allows a remote attacker to execute
arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">Logsurfer</product>
<announced>January 20, 2012</announced>
<revised>January 20, 2012: 1</revised>
<bug>387397</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-admin/logsurfer+" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.8</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.8</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Logsurfer is a real time log monitoring and analysis tool.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Logsurfer log files may contain substrings used for executing external
commands. The prepare_exec() function in src/exec.c contains a
double-free vulnerability.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote attacker could inject specially-crafted strings into a log file
processed by Logsurfer, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with
the permissions of the Logsurfer user.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Logsurfer users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-admin/logsurfer+-1.8"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3626">
CVE-2011-3626
</uri>
</references>
<metadata timestamp="Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:42:58 +0000" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
<metadata timestamp="Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:19:29 +0000" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>