metadata/glsa/glsa-201406-29.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201406-29">
  <title>spice-gtk: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in spice-gtk could allow local attackers to gain
    escalated privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">spice-gtk</product>
  <announced>2014-06-26</announced>
  <revised>2014-06-26: 1</revised>
  <bug>435694</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/spice-gtk" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.14</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.14</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>spice-gtk is a set of GObject and Gtk objects for connecting to Spice
      servers and a client GUI.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>spice-gtk does not properly sanitize the DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS
      environment variable.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All spice-gtk users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/spice-gtk-0.14"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4425">CVE-2012-4425</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2012-12-16T21:53:39Z">craig</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-06-26T23:23:49Z">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>