<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201402-08"> <title>stunnel: Arbitrary code execution</title> <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in stunnel, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">stunnel</product> <announced>2014-02-06</announced> <revised count="4">2014-02-07</revised> <bug>460278</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-misc/stunnel" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">4.56-r1</unaffected> <unaffected range="lt">4.00</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">4.56-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>The stunnel program is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper between a client and a local or remote server. </p> </background> <description> <p>A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in stunnel. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious proxy server, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code within the configured chroot directory, with the privileges of the user running stunnel. Please review the references below for details. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All stunnel users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/stunnel-4.56-r1" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1762">CVE-2013-1762</uri> <uri link="https://www.stunnel.org/CVE-2013-1762.html">stunnel: CVE-2013-1762 </uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2013-08-23T14:54:34Z"> creffett </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-02-07T09:46:24Z"> pinkbyte </metadata> </glsa>