A vulnerability allowing arbitrary code execution under certain circumstances has been found.

Announced

2004-06-04

Revised

2006-05-22 (revision 2)

Access

local

Bugs

#52945

Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200406-02

Affected packages

Package	Arch	Vulnerable	Unaffected
app-admin/tripwire	*	<= 2.3.1.2	>= 2.3.1.2-r1

Background

tripwire is an open source file integrity checker.

Description

The code that generates email reports contains a format string vulnerability in pipedmailmessage.cpp.

Impact

With a carefully crafted filename on a local filesystem an attacker could cause execution of arbitrary code with permissions of the user running tripwire, which could be the root user.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All tripwire users should upgrade to the latest stable version:

# emerge sync

# emerge -pv ">=app-admin/tripwire-2.3.1.2-r1"
# emerge ">=app-admin/tripwire-2.3.1.2-r1"

References

• Bugtraq Announcement
• CVE-2004-0536