metadata/glsa/glsa-201402-08.xml


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<?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>2014-02-06</announced>
  <revised count="4">2014-02-07</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 "&gt;=net-misc/stunnel-4.56-r1"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://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="2013-08-23T14:54:34Z">
    creffett
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-02-07T09:46:24Z">
    pinkbyte
  </metadata>
</glsa>