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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-13 High-Risk: GLib Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey January 21, 2014
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The vulnerability in GMime could lead to potential remote code execution or even result in Denial of Service conditions. It is crucial to apply updates without delay!
A buffer overflow error in GMime might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Summary

GMime contains a buffer overflow flaw in the GMIME_UUENCODE_LEN macro in gmime/gmime-encodings.h.

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security advisory buffer overflow critical code execution Denial of Service Gentoo Linux GMime

Resolution

GMime 2.4.x users on the PPC64 architecture should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/gmime-2.4.17"
GMime 2.4.x users on other architectures should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/gmime-2.4.15"
GMime 2.2.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/gmime-2.2.26"
Packages which depend on this library may need to be recompiled. Tools such as revdep-rebuild may assist in identifying some of these packages.

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-0409 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-0409

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201401-19
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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: GMime: Arbitrary code execution
Date: January 21, 2014
Bugs: #308051
ID: 201401-19

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security advisory buffer overflow critical code execution Denial of Service Gentoo Linux GMime

Synopsis

A buffer overflow error in GMime might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

GMime is a C/C++ library which may be used for the creation and parsing of messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME).

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-libs/gmime < 2.4.15 >= 2.4.15 *>= 2.4.17 *>= 2.2.26

Impact

===== A context-dependent attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.