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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 2:26 am Post subject: [ GLSA 201406-29 ] spice-gtk: Privilege escalation |
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
Title: spice-gtk: Privilege escalation (GLSA 201406-29)
Severity: high
Exploitable: remote
Date: June 26, 2014
Bug(s): #435694
ID: 201406-29
Synopsis
A vulnerability in spice-gtk could allow local attackers to gain
escalated privileges.
Background
spice-gtk is a set of GObject and Gtk objects for connecting to Spice
servers and a client GUI.
Affected Packages
Package: net-misc/spice-gtk
Vulnerable: < 0.14
Unaffected: >= 0.14
Architectures: All supported architectures
Description
spice-gtk does not properly sanitize the DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS
environment variable.
Impact
A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All spice-gtk users should upgrade to the latest version: Code: | # emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/spice-gtk-0.14"
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References
CVE-2012-4425 |
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