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diff --git a/metadata/glsa/glsa-200509-09.xml b/metadata/glsa/glsa-200509-09.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8cfd2f4b7f70 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/glsa/glsa-200509-09.xml @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> +<glsa id="200509-09"> + <title>Py2Play: Remote execution of arbitrary Python code</title> + <synopsis> + A design error in Py2Play allows attackers to execute arbitrary code. + </synopsis> + <product type="ebuild">py2play</product> + <announced>2005-09-17</announced> + <revised>2006-09-05: 02</revised> + <bug>103524</bug> + <access>remote</access> + <affected> + <package name="dev-python/py2play" auto="yes" arch="*"> + <unaffected range="ge">0.1.8</unaffected> + <vulnerable range="le">0.1.7</vulnerable> + </package> + </affected> + <background> + <p> + Py2Play is a peer-to-peer network game engine written in Python. + Pickling is a Python feature allowing to serialize Python objects into + string representations (called pickles) that can be sent over the + network. + </p> + </background> + <description> + <p> + Arc Riley discovered that Py2Play uses Python pickles to send objects + over a peer-to-peer game network, and that clients accept without + restriction the objects and code sent by peers. + </p> + </description> + <impact type="high"> + <p> + A remote attacker participating in a Py2Play-powered game can send + malicious Python pickles, resulting in the execution of arbitrary + Python code on the targeted game client. + </p> + </impact> + <workaround> + <p> + There is no known workaround at this time. + </p> + </workaround> + <resolution> + <p> + All py2play users should upgrade to the latest version: + </p> + <code> + # emerge --sync + # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/py2play-0.1.8"</code> + </resolution> + <references> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2875">CAN-2005-2875</uri> + </references> + <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-09-13T14:02:17Z"> + koon + </metadata> + <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-09-14T11:59:59Z"> + koon + </metadata> + <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-09-14T20:47:34Z"> + koon + </metadata> +</glsa> |