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Gentoo: 201406-29 High: Spice-GTK Privilege Escalation Risk

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Discover the vulnerabilities linked to spice-gtk in Gentoo as outlined in GLSA 201406-29 and explore the recommended solutions to mitigate these risks thoroughly.
A vulnerability in spice-gtk could allow local attackers to gain escalated privileges.

Summary

spice-gtk does not properly sanitize the DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable.

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo privilege escalation local attack spice-gtk

Resolution

All spice-gtk users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/spice-gtk-0.14"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-4425 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4425

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201406-29
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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: High
Title: spice-gtk: Privilege escalation
Date: June 26, 2014
Bugs: #435694
ID: 201406-29

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo privilege escalation local attack spice-gtk

Synopsis

A vulnerability in spice-gtk could allow local attackers to gain escalated privileges.

Background

spice-gtk is a set of GObject and Gtk objects for connecting to Spice servers and a client GUI.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/spice-gtk < 0.14 >= 0.14

Impact

===== A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.