glsa-200503-37.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200503-37">
  <title>LimeWire: Disclosure of sensitive information</title>
  <synopsis>
    Two vulnerabilities in LimeWire can be exploited to disclose sensitive
    information.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">LimeWire</product>
  <announced>March 31, 2005</announced>
  <revised>March 31, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>85380</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-p2p/limewire" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.8.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.8.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    LimeWire is a Java peer-to-peer client compatible with the
    Gnutella file-sharing protocol.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Two input validation errors were found in the handling of Gnutella
    GET requests (CAN-2005-0788) and magnet requests (CAN-2005-0789).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="low">
    <p>
    A remote attacker can craft a specific Gnutella GET request or use
    directory traversal on magnet requests to read arbitrary files on the
    system with the rights of the user running LimeWire.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All LimeWire users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-p2p/limewire-4.8.1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0788">CAN-2005-0788</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0789">CAN-2005-0789</uri>
    <uri link="http://secunia.com/advisories/14555/">Secunia Advisory SA14555</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:57:35 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:58:13 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:12:57 +0000">
    formula7
  </metadata>
</glsa>