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Gentoo: GLSA-202110-05 Important: Bugzilla Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2011
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several weaknesses in Bugzilla could result in unauthorized access and privilege elevation. Promptly update to ensure safety.
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Bugzilla, the worst of which leading to privilege escalation.

Summary

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo privilege escalation remote access cross-site scripting security updates bugzilla

Resolution

All Bugzilla users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/bugzilla-3.6.6"
NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since August 27, 2011. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-2761 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2761 [ 2 ] CVE-2010-3172 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3172 [ 3 ] CVE-2010-3764 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3764 [ 4 ] CVE-2010-4411 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-4411 [ 5 ] CVE-2010-4567 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-4567 [ 6 ] CVE-2010-4568 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-4568 [ 7 ] CVE-2010-4569 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-4569 [ 8 ] CVE-2010-4570 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-4570 [ 9 ] CVE-2010-4572 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-4572 [ 10 ] CVE-2011-0046 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0046 [ 11 ] CVE-2011-0048 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0048 [ 12 ] CVE-2011-2379 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2379 [ 13 ] CVE-2011-2380 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvena...

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Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
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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.

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Severity: Normal
Title: Bugzilla: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: October 09, 2011
Bugs: #352781, #380255, #386203
ID: 21f5d5f72

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo privilege escalation remote access cross-site scripting security updates bugzilla

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Bugzilla, the worst of which leading to privilege escalation.

Background

Bugzilla is the bug-tracking system from the Mozilla project.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-apps/bugzilla < 3.6.6 >= 3.6.6

Impact

===== A remote attacker could conduct cross-site scripting attacks, conduct script insertion and spoofing attacks, hijack the authentication of arbitrary users, inject arbitrary HTTP headers, obtain access to arbitrary accounts, disclose the existence of confidential groups and its names, or inject arbitrary e-mail headers. A local attacker could disclose the contents of temporarfy files for uploaded attachments.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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