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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201202-08">
+ <title>stunnel: Arbitrary code execution</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability was found in stunnel, allowing remote attackers to
+ cause a Denial of Service and potentially arbitrary code execution.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">ebuild stunnel</product>
+ <announced>2012-02-29</announced>
+ <revised count="2">2012-07-30</revised>
+ <bug>379859</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-misc/stunnel" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">4.44</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="lt">4</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">4.44</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>The stunnel program is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper
+ between a client and a local or remote server.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>An unspecified heap vulnerability was discovered in stunnel.</p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>The vulnerability may possibly be leveraged to perform remote code
+ execution or a Denial of Service attack.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All stunnel 4.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/stunnel-4.44"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2940">CVE-2011-2940</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata timestamp="2011-10-30T18:44:45Z" tag="requester">ago</metadata>
+ <metadata timestamp="2012-07-30T23:07:18Z" tag="submitter">ago</metadata>
+</glsa>