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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 201402-05
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 Severity: Low
    Title: Banshee: Arbitrary code execution
     Date: February 05, 2014
     Bugs: #345567
       ID: 201402-05

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Synopsis
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An environment variable processing error has been reported in Banshee,
possibly allowing local attacker to load a specially crafted shared
library.

Background
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Banshee is a multimedia management and playback application for GNOME.

Affected packages
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     Package              /     Vulnerable     /            Unaffected
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  1  media-sound/banshee         < 1.8.0-r1               >= 1.8.0-r1

Description
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Banshee places a zero-length directory name in PATH, which allows
libraries to be loaded from the working directory.

Impact
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A local attacker could put specially crafted library into working
directory of Banshee, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code
with the privileges of the process, or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Banshee users should upgrade to the latest version:

  # emerge --sync
  # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/banshee-1.8.0-r1"

NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are
available since November 17, 2010. It is likely that your system is
already no longer affected by this issue.

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2010-3998
      http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3998

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

 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201402-05

Concerns?
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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.

License
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Copyright 2014 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/