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| <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> |
| <glsa id="201202-08"> |
| <title>stunnel: Arbitrary code execution</title> |
| <synopsis>A vulnerability was found in stunnel, allowing remote attackers to |
| cause a Denial of Service and potentially arbitrary code execution. |
| </synopsis> |
| <product type="ebuild">ebuild stunnel</product> |
| <announced>February 29, 2012</announced> |
| <revised>July 30, 2012: 2</revised> |
| <bug>379859</bug> |
| <access>remote</access> |
| <affected> |
| <package name="net-misc/stunnel" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">4.44</unaffected> |
| <unaffected range="lt">4</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">4.44</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| </affected> |
| <background> |
| <p>The stunnel program is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper |
| between a client and a local or remote server. |
| </p> |
| </background> |
| <description> |
| <p>An unspecified heap vulnerability was discovered in stunnel.</p> |
| </description> |
| <impact type="normal"> |
| <p>The vulnerability may possibly be leveraged to perform remote code |
| execution or a Denial of Service attack. |
| </p> |
| </impact> |
| <workaround> |
| <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> |
| </workaround> |
| <resolution> |
| <p>All stunnel 4.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> |
| |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/stunnel-4.44" |
| </code> |
| </resolution> |
| <references> |
| <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2940">CVE-2011-2940</uri> |
| </references> |
| <metadata timestamp="Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:44:45 +0000" tag="requester">ago</metadata> |
| <metadata timestamp="Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:07:18 +0000" tag="submitter">ago</metadata> |
| </glsa> |