[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 201402-05 ] Banshee: Arbitrary code execution

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201402-05

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http://security.gentoo.org/

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Severity: Low

Title: Banshee: Arbitrary code execution

Date: February 05, 2014

Bugs: #345567

ID: 201402-05

 

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Synopsis

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An environment variable processing error has been reported in Banshee,

possibly allowing local attacker to load a specially crafted shared

library.

 

Background

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Banshee is a multimedia management and playback application for GNOME.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 media-sound/banshee < 1.8.0-r1 >= 1.8.0-r1

 

Description

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Banshee places a zero-length directory name in PATH, which allows

libraries to be loaded from the working directory.

 

Impact

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A local attacker could put specially crafted library into working

directory of Banshee, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code

with the privileges of the process, or a Denial of Service condition.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All Banshee users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/banshee-1.8.0-r1"

 

NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are

available since November 17, 2010. It is likely that your system is

already no longer affected by this issue.

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2010-3998

http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3998

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201402-05.xml

 

Concerns?

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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

https://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2014 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5