metadata/glsa/glsa-201201-04.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201201-04">
  <title>Logsurfer: Arbitrary code execution</title>
  <synopsis>A double-free flaw in Logsurfer allows a remote attacker to execute
    arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Logsurfer</product>
  <announced>January 20, 2012</announced>
  <revised>January 20, 2012: 1</revised>
  <bug>387397</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-admin/logsurfer+" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.8</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Logsurfer is a real time log monitoring and analysis tool.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Logsurfer log files may contain substrings used for executing external
      commands. The prepare_exec() function in src/exec.c contains a
      double-free vulnerability.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could inject specially-crafted strings into a log file
      processed by Logsurfer, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with
      the permissions of the Logsurfer user.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Logsurfer users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-admin/logsurfer+-1.8"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3626">
      CVE-2011-3626
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:42:58 +0000" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:19:29 +0000" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>