<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201206-08"> <title>Wicd: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Wicd, the worst of which might allow execution of arbitrary code as root. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">wicd</product> <announced>2012-06-21</announced> <revised count="1">2012-06-21</revised> <bug>401005</bug> <bug>411729</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="net-misc/wicd" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.7.2.1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.7.2.1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux.</p> </background> <description> <p>Two vulnerabilities have been found in Wicd:</p> <ul> <li>Passwords and passphrases are written to /var/log/wicd (CVE-2012-0813). </li> <li>Input from the daemon's D-Bus interface is not properly sanitized (CVE-2012-2095). </li> </ul> </description> <impact type="high"> <p>A local attacker could gain privileges of the root user or obtain sensitive information. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All Wicd users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/wicd-1.7.2.1" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0813">CVE-2012-0813</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2095">CVE-2012-2095</uri> </references> <metadata timestamp="2012-04-15T04:06:17Z" tag="requester"> underling </metadata> <metadata timestamp="2012-06-21T10:10:59Z" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata> </glsa>