gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200601-01.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200601-01">
  <title>pinentry: Local privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>
    pinentry is vulnerable to privilege escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">pinentry</product>
  <announced>January 03, 2006</announced>
  <revised>January 03, 2006: 01</revised>
  <bug>116822</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-crypt/pinentry" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.7.2-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.7.2-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    pinentry is a collection of simple PIN or passphrase entry dialogs
    which utilize the Assuan protocol.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has
    discovered that the pinentry ebuild incorrectly sets the permissions of
    the pinentry binaries upon installation, so that the sgid bit is set
    making them execute with the privileges of group ID 0.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A user of pinentry could potentially read and overwrite files with
    a group ID of 0.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All pinentry users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-crypt/pinentry-0.7.2-r2&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
        <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0071">CVE-2006-0071</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:13:15 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:13:43 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 02 Jan 2006 22:02:30 +0000">
    shellsage
  </metadata>
</glsa>