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authorThomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>2018-01-27 18:01:56 +0100
committerThomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>2018-01-27 18:01:56 +0100
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201801-20">
+ <title>Fossil: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in Fossil allowing for
+ user-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">fossil</product>
+ <announced>2018-01-27</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2018-01-27</revised>
+ <bug>640208</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-vcs/fossil" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.4</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.4</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>Fossil is a simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration
+ management system.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>Fossil does not properly validate SSH sync protocol URLs.</p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a specially crafted URL,
+ could possibly execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user
+ running the application.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All Fossil users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-vcs/fossil-2.4"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17459">CVE-2017-17459</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-01-22T21:39:18Z">b-man</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-01-27T17:00:59Z">b-man</metadata>
+</glsa>