<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200806-05"> <title>cbrPager: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title> <synopsis> Insecure filename usage in cbrPager may allow for the remote execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">cbrpager</product> <announced>2008-06-16</announced> <revised count="01">2008-06-16</revised> <bug>223657</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="app-misc/cbrpager" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.9.17</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.9.17</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> cbrPager is a comic book pager. </p> </background> <description> <p> Mamoru Tasaka discovered that filenames of the image archives are not properly sanitized before being passed to decompression utilities like unrar and unzip, which use the system() libc library call. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could entice a user to open an archive with a specially crafted filename, resulting in arbitrary code execution 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 cbrPager users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-misc/cbrpager-0.9.17"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2575">CVE-2008-2575</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-05-28T17:48:23Z"> keytoaster </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-06-03T15:18:59Z"> vorlon </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-06-14T21:12:52Z"> p-y </metadata> </glsa>