metadata/glsa/glsa-201607-17.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201607-17">
  <title>BeanShell: Arbitrary code execution</title>
  <synopsis>BeanShell is vulnerable to the remote execution of arbitrary code
    via Java serialization or XStream from an untrusted source.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild"></product>
  <announced>July 30, 2016</announced>
  <revised>July 30, 2016: 1</revised>
  <bug>575482</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-java/bsh" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.0_beta6</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.0_beta6</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable Java source interpreter with
      object scripting language features, written in Java.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>An application that includes BeanShell on the classpath may be
      vulnerable if another part of the application uses Java serialization or
      XStream to deserialize data from an untrusted source.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Remote attackers could execute arbitrary code including shell commands.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All BeanShell users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --verbose --oneshot "&gt;=dev-java/bsh-2.0_beta6"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://github.com/beanshell/beanshell/releases/tag/2.0b6">
      BeanShell 2.0b6 Release Information
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2510">
      CVE-2016-2510
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 15 Mar 2016 10:56:37 +0000">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 30 Jul 2016 00:53:17 +0000">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>