<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201401-19"> <title>GMime: Arbitrary code execution</title> <synopsis>A buffer overflow error in GMime might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">gmime</product> <announced>2014-01-21</announced> <revised count="1">2014-01-21</revised> <bug>308051</bug> <access>local, remote</access> <affected> <package name="dev-libs/gmime" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.4.15</unaffected> <unaffected range="rge">2.4.17</unaffected> <unaffected range="rge">2.2.26</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.4.15</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>GMime is a C/C++ library which may be used for the creation and parsing of messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME). </p> </background> <description> <p>GMime contains a buffer overflow flaw in the GMIME_UUENCODE_LEN macro in gmime/gmime-encodings.h. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A context-dependent attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>GMime 2.4.x users on the PPC64 architecture should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/gmime-2.4.17" </code> <p>GMime 2.4.x users on other architectures should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/gmime-2.4.15" </code> <p>GMime 2.2.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/gmime-2.2.26" </code> <p>Packages which depend on this library may need to be recompiled. Tools such as revdep-rebuild may assist in identifying some of these packages. </p> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-0409"> CVE-2010-0409 </uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2011-10-07T23:37:54Z"> underling </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-01-21T19:00:40Z">Zlogene</metadata> </glsa>