<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201606-16"> <title>PLIB: Buffer overflow vulnerability</title> <synopsis>A buffer overflow in PLIB might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild"/> <announced>2016-06-26</announced> <revised count="1">2016-06-26</revised> <bug>395553</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="media-libs/plib" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.8.5-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.5-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>PLIB includes sound effects, music, a complete 3D engine, font rendering, a simple Windowing library, a game scripting language, a GUI, networking, 3D math library and a collection of handy utility functions. </p> </background> <description> <p>A buffer overflow in PLIB allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a long error message, as demonstrated by a crafted acc file for TORCS. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>Remote attackers could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All PLIB users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --verbose --oneshot ">=media-libs/plib-1.8.5-r1" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4620">CVE-2011-4620</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-03-19T12:41:25Z">b-man</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-06-26T23:59:26Z">b-man</metadata> </glsa>