gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200801-06.xml

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

<glsa id="200801-06">
  <title>Xfce: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities in Xfce might allow user-assisted attackers to
    execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">xfce4-panel libxfcegui4</product>
  <announced>January 09, 2008</announced>
  <revised>January 10, 2008: 03</revised>
  <bug>201292</bug>
  <bug>201293</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="xfce-base/xfce4-panel" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.4.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.4.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="xfce-base/libxfcegui4" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.4.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.4.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Xfce is a GTK+ 2 based desktop environment that allows to run a modern
    desktop environment on modest hardware.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Gregory Andersen reported that the Xfce4 panel does not correctly
    calculate memory boundaries, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow
    in the launcher_update_panel_entry() function (CVE-2007-6531). Daichi
    Kawahata reported libxfcegui4 did not copy provided values when
    creating "SessionClient" structs, possibly leading to access of freed
    memory areas (CVE-2007-6532).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to install a specially crafted
    "rc" file to execute arbitrary code via long strings in the "Name" and
    "Comment" fields or via unspecified vectors involving the second
    vulnerability.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Xfce4 panel users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.4.2&quot;</code>
    <p>
    All libxfcegui4 users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=xfce-base/libxfcegui4-4.4.2&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6531">CVE-2007-6531</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6532">CVE-2007-6532</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:45:36 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:22:06 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:37:18 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>