| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
| <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> |
| <glsa id="201402-08"> |
| <title>stunnel: Arbitrary code execution</title> |
| <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in stunnel, allowing for the |
| execution of arbitrary code. |
| </synopsis> |
| <product type="ebuild">stunnel</product> |
| <announced>February 06, 2014</announced> |
| <revised>February 07, 2014: 4</revised> |
| <bug>460278</bug> |
| <access>remote</access> |
| <affected> |
| <package name="net-misc/stunnel" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">4.56-r1</unaffected> |
| <unaffected range="lt">4.00</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">4.56-r1</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>A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in stunnel. Please |
| review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. |
| </p> |
| </description> |
| <impact type="normal"> |
| <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious proxy |
| server, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code within the |
| configured chroot directory, with the privileges of the user running |
| stunnel. Please review the references below for details. |
| </p> |
| </impact> |
| <workaround> |
| <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> |
| </workaround> |
| <resolution> |
| <p>All stunnel users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> |
| |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/stunnel-4.56-r1" |
| </code> |
| |
| </resolution> |
| <references> |
| <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1762">CVE-2013-1762</uri> |
| <uri link="https://www.stunnel.org/CVE-2013-1762.html">stunnel: |
| CVE-2013-1762 |
| </uri> |
| </references> |
| <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:54:34 +0000"> |
| creffett |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 07 Feb 2014 09:46:24 +0000"> |
| pinkbyte |
| </metadata> |
| </glsa> |