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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201209-22.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201209-22">
<title>libgssglue: Privilege escalation</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability in libgssglue may allow a local attacker to gain
escalated privileges.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">libgssglue</product>
<announced>September 28, 2012</announced>
<revised>September 28, 2012: 1</revised>
<bug>385321</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-libs/libgssglue" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.4</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.4</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>libgssglue exports a GSSAPI interface which calls other random GSSAPI
libraries.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>libgssglue does not securely use getenv() when loading a library for a
setuid application.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="high">
<p>A local attacker could gain escalated privileges.</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All libgssglue users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-libs/libgssglue-0.4"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2709">CVE-2011-2709</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 09 Sep 2012 12:06:10 +0000">ackle</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:34:59 +0000">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>