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<glsa id="200903-01">
  <title>Vinagre: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    A format string error in Vinagre may allow for the execution of arbitrary
    code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">vinagre</product>
  <announced>2009-03-06</announced>
  <revised count="01">2009-03-06</revised>
  <bug>250314</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/vinagre" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.5.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.5.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Vinagre is a VNC Client for the GNOME Desktop.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Alfredo Ortega (Core Security Technologies) reported a format string
    error in the vinagre_utils_show_error() function in
    src/vinagre-utils.c.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user into opening a specially crafted
    .vnc file or connecting to a malicious server, possibly resulting in
    the remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
    running the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Vinagre users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/vinagre-0.5.2"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5660">CVE-2008-5660</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-12-13T19:36:32Z">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-02-24T22:12:27Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-02-24T22:12:38Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>
