glsa-201812-10.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201812-10">
  <title>GKSu: Arbitrary command execution</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in GKSu might allow attackers to execute arbitrary
    commands.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">gksu</product>
  <announced>2018-12-30</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-12-30</revised>
  <bug>534540</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="x11-libs/gksu" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <vulnerable range="le">2.0.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>A library that provides a Gtk+ frontend to su and sudo.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A vulnerability was discovered in GKSu’s gksu-run-helper.</p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>An attacker could execute arbitrary commands.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>Gentoo has discontinued support for GKSu and recommends that users
      unmerge the package:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --unmerge "x11-libs/gksu"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2886">CVE-2014-2886</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-12-11T17:31:55Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-12-30T21:10:46Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>