Executive Summary

Summary
Title xmonad-contrib: Arbitrary code execution
Informations
Name GLSA-201405-28 First vendor Publication 2014-05-28
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-05-28
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A remote command injection vulnerability has been discovered in xmonad-contrib.

Background

xmonad-contrib is a set of third party tiling algorithms, configurations, and scripts for xmonad.

Description

A vulnerability in the Xmonad.Hooks.DynamicLog module could allow a malicious website with a specially crafted title to inject commands into the title bar which would be executed when the bar is clicked.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All xmonad-contrib users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-wm/xmonad-contrib-0.11.2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-1436 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1436

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-28.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-28.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-94 Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-05-29 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201405-28.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-06 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2013-13332.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-06 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2013-13388.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-10-08 05:37:28
  • Multiple Updates
2014-10-07 21:32:20
  • Multiple Updates
2014-05-30 13:23:33
  • Multiple Updates
2014-05-28 09:20:17
  • First insertion