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Gentoo: GLSA 201205-02 Normal: Several ConnMan Vulnerabilities Found

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Various security flaws in ConnMan may enable remote code execution or service interruption on Gentoo Linux systems.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ConnMan, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ConnMan: * Errors in inet.c and rtnl.c prevent ConnMan from checking the origin of netlink messages (CVE-2012-2320). * ConnMan does not properly check for shell escapes when requesting a hostname via DHCP (CVE-2012-2321). * An infinite loop error exists in client.c (CVE-2012-2322).

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo remote code execution multiple vulnerabilities normal severity connman

Resolution

All ConnMan users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/connman-1.0-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-2320 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2320 [ 2 ] CVE-2012-2321 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2321 [ 3 ] CVE-2012-2322 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2322

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201205-02
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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.

Severity: Normal
Title: ConnMan: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: May 15, 2012
Bugs: #415415
ID: 201205-02

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo remote code execution multiple vulnerabilities normal severity connman

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ConnMan, allowing attackersto execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service.

Background

ConnMan provides a daemon for managing Internet connections.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/connman < 1.0-r1 >= 1.0-r1

Impact

===== A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.