stunnel: Arbitrary code execution A vulnerability was found in stunnel, allowing remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service and potentially arbitrary code execution. ebuild stunnel February 29, 2012 July 30, 2012: 2 379859 remote 4.44 4 4.44

The stunnel program is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper between a client and a local or remote server.

An unspecified heap vulnerability was discovered in stunnel.

The vulnerability may possibly be leveraged to perform remote code execution or a Denial of Service attack.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All stunnel 4.x users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/stunnel-4.44" CVE-2011-2940 ago ago