GLSA 201406-29: spice-gtk: Privilege escalation

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Severity:	high
Title:	spice-gtk: Privilege escalation
Date:	06/26/2014
Bugs:	#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	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-misc/spice-gtk	< 0.14	>= 0.14	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:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/spice-gtk-0.14"

References

CVE-2012-4425

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-29.xml

Concerns?

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@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.