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TITLE:
SUSE update for gypsy

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA49991

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-07-18

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DESCRIPTION:
SUSE has issued an update for gypsy. This fixes a weakness and a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
potentially disclose sensitive information and potentially gain
escalated privileges.

1) The application does not properly verify files before opening them
for reading and can be exploited to read arbitrary files with root
privileges.

2) Certain errors in multiple functions within the NMEA parser can
potentially be exploited to cause buffer overflows.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Kees Cook within a Launchpad bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
gypsy:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gypsy/commit/?id=40101707cddb319481133b2a137294b6b669bd16

Kees Cook:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gypsy/+bug/690323

openSUSE-SU-2012:0884-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00034.html

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