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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/xsl/glsa.xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/xsl/guide.xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201203-20">
+ <title>Logwatch: Arbitrary code execution</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability in Logwatch might allow remote attackers to execute
+ arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">Logwatch</product>
+ <announced>March 28, 2012</announced>
+ <revised>March 28, 2012: 1</revised>
+ <bug>356387</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-apps/logwatch" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">7.4.0</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">7.4.0</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>Logwatch analyzes and reports on system logs.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>logwatch.pl does not properly sanitize log filenames against shell
+ metacharacters before passing them to the "system()" function.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>A remote attacker could pass a specially crafted log filename to
+ Logwatch, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with root
+ privileges or a Denial of Service condition.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All Logwatch users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/logwatch-7.4.0"
+ </code>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1018">CVE-2011-1018</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata timestamp="Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:51:03 +0000" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
+ <metadata timestamp="Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:30:33 +0000" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
+</glsa>