Gentoo: GLSA-202203-12 Normal: PKI Certificate Validation Issue
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December 30, 2018
A vulnerability in GKSu might allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands.
Summary
A vulnerability was discovered in GKSu's gksu-run-helper.
Resolution
Gentoo has discontinued support for GKSu and recommends that usersunmerge the package:
# emerge --unmerge "x11-libs/gksu"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2014-2886 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2886
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-10
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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: GKSu: Arbitrary command execution
Date: December 30, 2018
Bugs: #534540
ID: 201812-10
Background
A library that provides a Gtk+ frontend to su and sudo.
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Affected Packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 x11-libs/gksu <= 2.0.2 Vulnerable!
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NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate
to another package if one is available or wait for the
existing packages to be marked stable by their
architecture maintainers.
Impact
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An attacker could execute arbitrary commands.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
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