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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201402-05">
  <title>Banshee: Arbitrary code execution</title>
  <synopsis>An environment variable processing error has been reported in
    Banshee, possibly allowing local attacker to load a specially crafted
    shared library.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">banshee</product>
  <announced>2014-02-05</announced>
  <revised count="1">2014-02-05</revised>
  <bug>345567</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-sound/banshee" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.8.0-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.0-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Banshee is a multimedia management and playback application for GNOME.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Banshee places a zero-length directory name in PATH, which allows
      libraries to be loaded from the working directory.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="low">
    <p>A local attacker could put specially crafted library into working
      directory of Banshee, 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 Banshee users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-sound/banshee-1.8.0-r1"
    </code>
    
    <p>NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are
      available since November 17, 2010. It is likely that your system is
      already no longer affected by this issue.
    </p>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3998">CVE-2010-3998</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2011-10-07T23:38:16Z">craig</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-02-05T10:53:24Z">
    pinkbyte
  </metadata>
</glsa>
