gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201312-09.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201312-09">
  <title>cabextract: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in cabextract, allowing
    remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service
    condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">cabextract</product>
  <announced>2013-12-14</announced>
  <revised count="1">2013-12-14</revised>
  <bug>329891</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-arch/cabextract" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>cabextract is free software for extracting Microsoft cabinet files.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cabextract. Please
      review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially-crafted
      archive in a .cab file, related to the libmspack library, potentially
      resulting in arbitrary code execution or a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All cabextract users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-arch/cabextract-1.3"
    </code>
    
    <p>NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are
      available since August 03, 2010. It is likely that your system is already
      no longer affected by this issue.
    </p>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-2800">
      CVE-2010-2800
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-2801">
      CVE-2010-2801
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2011-10-07T23:38:14Z">
    underling
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2013-12-14T22:24:14Z">Zlogene</metadata>
</glsa>