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Bug 579836

Summary: app-accessibility/brltty: Authentication bypass issue
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: minor CC: accessibility
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326800
Whiteboard: B3 [upstream]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-04-13 13:10:38 UTC
From ${URL} :

An authentication bypass issue was found in brltty that is using polkit to control access to system resources using PID of the process connecting to the server socket.

CVE request:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/59


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-07-19 09:58:55 UTC
This issue does not affect the current ebuild in the tree.  The vulnerable code was not introduced until after the 5.2 release, as discussed on the RedHat bugzilla and verified in the source tarball.