[arch-security] [ASA-201606-10] gnutls: arbitrary file overwrite

[Levente Polyak]

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201606-10
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Severity: Medium
Date    : 2016-06-10
CVE-ID  : CVE-2016-4456
Package : gnutls
Type    : arbitrary file overwrite
Remote  : No
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE

Summary
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The package gnutls before version 3.4.13-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary
file overwrite.

Resolution
==========

Upgrade to 3.4.13-1.

# pacman -Syu "gnutls>=3.4.13-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 3.4.13.

Workaround
==========

None.

Description
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Setuid programs using GnuTLS could potentially allow an attacker to
overwrite and corrupt arbitrary files in the filesystem. This issue was
introduced in GnuTLS 3.4.12 with the GNUTLS_KEYLOGFILE environment
variable handling via getenv() and fixed in GnuTLS 3.4.13 by switching
to secure_getenv() where available.

Impact
======

A local attacker is able to overwrite arbitrary files with a setuid
program using GnuTLS by setting the GNUTLS_KEYLOGFILE environment
variable.

References
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4456
http://gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2016-1

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