gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201803-13.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201803-13">
  <title>PLIB: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in PLIB may allow remote attackers to execute
    arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">plib</product>
  <announced>2018-03-26</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-03-26</revised>
  <bug>440762</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-libs/plib" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.8.5-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.5-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>PLIB includes sound effects, music, a complete 3D engine, font
      rendering, a simple Windowing library, a game scripting language, a GUI,
      networking, 3D math library and a collection of handy utility functions.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A stack-based buffer overflow within the error function of
      ssg/ssgParser.cxx was discovered in PLIB.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a specially crafted 3d
      model file, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
      the process.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All PLIB users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-libs/plib-1.8.5-r1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4552">CVE-2012-4552</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-03-25T20:13:40Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-03-26T16:27:43Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>