[ GLSA 201406-29 ] spice-gtk: Privilege escalation

[GLSA]

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: