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Gentoo GLSA 201412-49 High Severity: Fish Shell Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey December 28, 2014
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Uncover significant vulnerabilities in the fish shell impacting Gentoo, leading to possible local privilege elevation and remote code exploitation.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in fish, the worst of which could result in local privilege escalation or remote arbitrary code execution

Summary

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo privilege escalation arbitrary code execution multiple vulnerabilities fish shell

Resolution

All fish users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-shells/fish-2.1.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-2905 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2905 [ 2 ] CVE-2014-2906 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2906 [ 3 ] CVE-2014-2914 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2914 [ 4 ] CVE-2014-3219 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3219

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201412-49
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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: fish: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: December 28, 2014
Bugs: #509044
ID: 201412-49

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo privilege escalation arbitrary code execution multiple vulnerabilities fish shell

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in fish, the worst of which could result in local privilege escalation or remote arbitrary code execution.

Background

fish is the Friendly Interactive SHell.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-shells/fish < 2.1.1 >= 2.1.1

Impact

===== A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges or overwrite arbitrary files. Furthermore, a remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.