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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201606-16">
<title>PLIB: Buffer overflow vulnerability</title>
<synopsis>A buffer overflow in PLIB might allow remote attackers to execute
arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild"/>
<announced>2016-06-26</announced>
<revised count="1">2016-06-26</revised>
<bug>395553</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="media-libs/plib" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.8.5-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.8.5-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>PLIB includes sound effects, music, a complete 3D engine, font
rendering, a simple Windowing library, a game scripting language, a GUI,
networking, 3D math library and a collection of handy utility functions.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>A buffer overflow in PLIB allows user-assisted remote attackers to
execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a long error message, as
demonstrated by a crafted acc file for TORCS.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>Remote attackers could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
process.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All PLIB users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --verbose --oneshot ">=media-libs/plib-1.8.5-r1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4620">CVE-2011-4620</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-03-19T12:41:25Z">b-man</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-06-26T23:59:26Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>
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