glsa-200504-26.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200504-26">
  <title>Convert-UUlib: Buffer overflow</title>
  <synopsis>
    A buffer overflow has been reported in Convert-UUlib, potentially resulting
    in the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Convert-UUlib</product>
  <announced>April 26, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>89501</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-perl/Convert-UUlib" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.051</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.051</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Convert-UUlib provides a Perl interface to the uulib library, allowing
    Perl applications to access data encoded in a variety of formats.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    A vulnerability has been reported in Convert-UUlib where a malformed
    parameter can be provided by an attacker allowing a read operation to
    overflow a buffer. The vendor credits Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis
    with the discovery.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    Successful exploitation would permit an attacker to run arbitrary code
    with the privileges of the user running the Perl application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Convert-UUlib users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-perl/Convert-UUlib-1.051&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1349">CVE-2005-1349</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:17:03 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:24:58 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:37:01 +0000">
    taviso
  </metadata>
</glsa>