glsa-201701-52.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201701-52">
  <title>libupnp: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libupnp, the worst of
    which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libupnp</product>
  <announced>2017-01-23</announced>
  <revised>2017-01-23: 1</revised>
  <bug>589136</bug>
  <bug>598202</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-libs/libupnp" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.6.21</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.6.21</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>libupnp is a portable, open source, UPnP development kit.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libupnp. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attack could arbitrarily write files to a users file system,
      cause a Denial of Service condition, or execute arbitrary code.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All libupnp users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-libs/libupnp-1.6.21"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-6255">CVE-2016-6255</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8863">CVE-2016-8863</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-01-19T08:52:15Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-01-23T03:28:22Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>