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<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 "&gt;=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>
