GLSA 201412-49: fish: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	fish: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	12/28/2014
Bugs:	#509044
ID:	201412-49

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in fish, the worst of which could result in local privilege escalation or remote arbitrary code execution.

Background

fish is the Friendly Interactive SHell.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-shells/fish	< 2.1.1	>= 2.1.1	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in fish. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges or overwrite arbitrary files. Furthermore, a remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All fish users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-shells/fish-2.1.1"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-49.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.