metadata/glsa/glsa-201401-19.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201401-19">
  <title>GMime: Arbitrary code execution</title>
  <synopsis>A buffer overflow error in GMime might allow remote attackers to
    execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">gmime</product>
  <announced>January 21, 2014</announced>
  <revised>January 21, 2014: 1</revised>
  <bug>308051</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/gmime" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.4.15</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">2.4.17</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">2.2.26</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.4.15</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>GMime is a C/C++ library which may be used for the creation and parsing
      of messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME).
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>GMime contains a buffer overflow flaw in the GMIME_UUENCODE_LEN macro in
      gmime/gmime-encodings.h.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A context-dependent attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code or
      cause a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>GMime 2.4.x users on the PPC64 architecture should upgrade to the latest
      version:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/gmime-2.4.17"
    </code>
    
    <p>GMime 2.4.x users on other architectures should upgrade to the latest
      version:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/gmime-2.4.15"
    </code>
    
    <p>GMime 2.2.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/gmime-2.2.26"
    </code>
    
    <p>Packages which depend on this library may need to be recompiled. Tools
      such as revdep-rebuild may assist in identifying some of these packages.
    </p>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-0409">
      CVE-2010-0409
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:37:54 +0000">
    underling
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:00:40 +0000">Zlogene</metadata>
</glsa>