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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201707-09">
<title>GNOME applet for NetworkManager: Arbitrary file read/write</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in GNOME applet for NetworkManager
allowing local attackers to access the local filesystem.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">nm-applet</product>
<announced>2017-07-08</announced>
<revised>2017-08-06: 2</revised>
<bug>613768</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="gnome-extra/nm-applet" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.4.6-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.4.6-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>GNOME applet for NetworkManager is a GTK+ 3 front-end which works under
Xorg environments with a systray.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Frederic Bardy and Quentin Biguenet discovered that GNOME applet for
NetworkManager incorrectly checked permissions when connecting to certain
wireless networks.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A local attacker could bypass security restrictions at the login screen
to access local files.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All GNOME applet for NetworkManager users should upgrade to the latest
version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=gnome-extra/nm-applet-1.4.6-r1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-6590">CVE-2017-6590</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-04-02T12:44:50Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-08-06T11:10:08Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>
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