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From: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@g.o>
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Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200601-09 ] Wine: Windows Metafile SETABORTPROC vulnerability
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:43:32
Message-Id: 200601130812.17242.jaervosz@gentoo.org
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2 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200601-09
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7 Severity: Normal
8 Title: Wine: Windows Metafile SETABORTPROC vulnerability
9 Date: January 13, 2006
10 Bugs: #118101
11 ID: 200601-09
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15 Synopsis
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18 There is a flaw in Wine in the handling of Windows Metafiles (WMF)
19 files, which could possibly result in the execution of arbitrary code.
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21 Background
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24 Wine is a free implementation of Windows APIs for Unix-like systems.
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26 Affected packages
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30 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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32 1 app-emulation/wine < 20050930 >= 20050930
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34 Description
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37 H D Moore discovered that Wine implements the insecure-by-design
38 SETABORTPROC GDI Escape function for Windows Metafile (WMF) files.
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40 Impact
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43 An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Windows
44 Metafile (WMF) file from within a Wine executed Windows application,
45 possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the rights
46 of the user running Wine.
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48 Workaround
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51 There is no known workaround at this time.
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53 Resolution
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56 All Wine users should upgrade to the latest version:
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58 # emerge --sync
59 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/wine-20050930"
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61 References
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64 [ 1 ] CVE-2006-0106
65 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0106
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67 Availability
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70 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
71 the Gentoo Security Website:
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73 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200601-09.xml
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75 Concerns?
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78 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
79 confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
80 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
81 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
82 http://bugs.gentoo.org.
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84 License
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87 Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
88 belongs to its owner(s).
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90 The contents of this document are licensed under the
91 Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
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93 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0