<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="202008-02"> <title>GNU GLOBAL: Arbitrary code execution</title> <synopsis>A vulnerability in GNU GLOBAL was discovered, possibly allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">global</product> <announced>2020-08-08</announced> <revised count="1">2020-08-08</revised> <bug>646348</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="dev-util/global" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">6.6.4</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">6.6.4</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>GNU GLOBAL is a source code tagging system that works the same way across diverse environments, such as Emacs editor, Vi editor, Less viewer, Bash shell, various web browsers, etc. </p> </background> <description> <p>A vulnerability was found in an undocumented function of gozilla.</p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted URL using GNU GLOBAL, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All GNU GLOBAL users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-util/global-6.6.4" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17531">CVE-2017-17531</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-08-08T02:37:03Z">sam_c</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-08-08T04:17:26Z">sam_c</metadata> </glsa>