Executive Summary

Summary
Title libsoup: Arbitrary remote code execution
Informations
Name GLSA-201709-26 First vendor Publication 2017-09-26
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-09-26
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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 :
Cvss Base Score N/A Attack Range N/A
Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in libsoup might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Background

libsoup is an HTTP client/server library for GNOME.

Description

A stack based buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in libsoup.

Impact

A remote attacker, by using specially crafted HTTP requests, could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All libsoup users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-libs/libsoup-2.56.1"

Packages which depend on this library may need to be recompiled. Tools such as revdep-rebuild may assist in identifying some of these packages.

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-2885 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2885

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-26

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201709-26.xml

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Date Informations
2017-09-28 13:24:49
  • Multiple Updates
2017-09-26 17:23:07
  • First insertion