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On 2011-01-31T18:04:37+00:00 Vincent wrote:

Two vulnerabilities were reported [1],[2] in gypsy, a GPS multiplexing
daemon.

The first is that it reads arbitrary files as the root user on behalf of
a regular user (CVE-2011-0523).  The second is that there is a buffer
overflow in nmea device input handling which could potentially lead to
privilege escalation (CVE-2011-0524).  Both issues have been reported
upstream [3], however there has been no response (the Ubuntu bug
indicates upstream was noticed 20101214 with no response.  There is also
a SUSE bug [4] with some further information.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/4124
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gypsy/+bug/690323
[3] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33431
[4] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666839#c3

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On 2011-01-31T18:08:01+00:00 Vincent wrote:

It also looks as though this software may be abandoned.  There is no
upstream activity since June 2010: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gypsy/

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On 2011-01-31T18:08:38+00:00 Vincent wrote:

Created gypsy tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 674131]

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On 2011-01-31T18:13:18+00:00 Peter wrote:

Upstream isn't abandoned but there's not a lot of churn. I'll poke
upstream directly to get a response.

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On 2011-01-31T18:30:52+00:00 Vincent wrote:

Many thanks for that, Peter.

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On 2011-04-07T19:33:53+00:00 Josh wrote:

Hi Peter,

Any update on this from upstream?

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On 2011-04-08T08:20:31+00:00 Peter wrote:

I reported it on the meego bugzilla as I'd not got any response from the
maintainers. https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14396

It seems there's a patch been added (only just saw it) but I'm not able
to make a judgement on whether it fixes the problem. Quite happy to
patch and push it in Fedora if someone can review and ACK it.

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On 2011-04-28T21:31:58+00:00 Vincent wrote:

Peter, can you attach the patch to this bug?  I tried to load up that
bug and don't have an account there (so I suspect I won't have
privileges if I go ahead and make one).  You can make the attachment
private (or email it to me directly perhaps).

Thanks,

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On 2011-04-28T22:26:51+00:00 Peter wrote:

I've emailed it as I couldn't see how to set the attachment as private,
only the entire bug.

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On 2011-04-28T23:35:37+00:00 Vincent wrote:

Thanks, Peter.  I've got it.  I think that patch should be ok; might be
nice to get it into Fedora and test it out if nothing else.  The patch
only addresses CVE-2011-0523 (the first issue) from what I can tell, and
not the buffer overflow in nmea device handling.  Has that been
discussed upstream at all?

I still see no activity in the upstream git -- do we know if this patch
will land there?

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On 2011-10-12T11:21:02+00:00 Bastien wrote:

Waiting on upstream to review the patches:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33431

Feel free to comment there about the patch itself, and I'll iterate.

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On 2012-01-24T14:56:05+00:00 Ramon wrote:

Hi Bastien, do you have any update on this?

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On 2012-05-18T14:02:01+00:00 Stefan wrote:

Created gypsy tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 822922]

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On 2016-03-10T19:55:26+00:00 Peter wrote:

Upstream is dead, It's been retired in F-24+

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** Changed in: gypsy (Fedora)
       Status: Unknown => Invalid

** Changed in: gypsy (Fedora)
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

** Bug watch added: Meego #14396
   http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14396

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