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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200809-01">
+ <title>yelp: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A vulnerability in yelp can lead to the execution of arbitrary code when
+ opening a URI, for example through Firefox.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">yelp</product>
+ <announced>2008-09-04</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2008-09-04</revised>
+ <bug>234079</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="gnome-extra/yelp" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.22.1-r2</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="rge">2.20.0-r1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.22.1-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ yelp is the default help browser for GNOME.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Aaron Grattafiori reported a format string vulnerability in the
+ window_error() function in yelp-window.c.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker can entice a user to open specially crafted "man:" or
+ "ghelp:" URIs in yelp, or an application using yelp such as Firefox or
+ Evolution, and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that user.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All yelp users running GNOME 2.22 should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=gnome-extra/yelp-2.22.1-r2"</code>
+ <p>
+ All yelp users running GNOME 2.20 should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=gnome-extra/yelp-2.20.0-r1"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3533">CVE-2008-3533</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-08-15T14:25:26Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-08-19T23:34:23Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-08-19T23:34:31Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>