glsa-201110-08.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201110-08">
  <title>feh: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in feh, the worst of which
    leading to remote passive code execution.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">feh</product>
  <announced>2011-10-13</announced>
  <revised count="2">2011-10-13</revised>
  <bug>325531</bug>
  <bug>354063</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-gfx/feh" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.12</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.12</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>feh is a fast, lightweight imageviewer using imlib2.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in feh. Please review the
      CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A malicious entity might entice a user to visit a URL using the
      --wget-timestamp option, thus executing arbitrary commands via shell
      metacharacters; a malicious local user could perform a symlink attack and
      overwrite arbitrary files.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All feh users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-gfx/feh-1.12"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2246">CVE-2010-2246</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0702">CVE-2011-0702</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1031">CVE-2011-1031</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="2011-10-07T23:37:47Z" tag="requester">craig</metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="2011-10-13T21:10:09Z" tag="submitter">craig</metadata>
</glsa>