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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/xsl/glsa.xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/xsl/guide.xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201207-03">
+ <title>ChaSen: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
+ <synopsis>A buffer overflow vulnerability in ChaSen could result in the
+ execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">ChaSen</product>
+ <announced>July 09, 2012</announced>
+ <revised>July 09, 2012: 1</revised>
+ <bug>390769</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-text/chasen" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.4.4-r2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.4.4-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>ChaSen is a Japanese morphological analysis system.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>An error in chalib.c of ChaSen could cause a buffer overflow.</p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted text
+ file using ChaSen or an application using the ChaSen libraries, 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 ChaSen users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-text/chasen-2.4.4-r2"
+ </code>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4000">CVE-2011-4000</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata timestamp="Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:16:56 +0000" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
+ <metadata timestamp="Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:20:31 +0000" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
+</glsa>