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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201812-10">
+ <title>GKSu: Arbitrary command execution</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability in GKSu might allow attackers to execute arbitrary
+ commands.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">gksu</product>
+ <announced>2018-12-30</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2018-12-30</revised>
+ <bug>534540</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="x11-libs/gksu" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <vulnerable range="le">2.0.2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>A library that provides a Gtk+ frontend to su and sudo.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>A vulnerability was discovered in GKSu’s gksu-run-helper.</p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>An attacker could execute arbitrary commands.</p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>Gentoo has discontinued support for GKSu and recommends that users
+ unmerge the package:
+ </p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --unmerge "x11-libs/gksu"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2886">CVE-2014-2886</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-12-11T17:31:55Z">b-man</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-12-30T21:10:46Z">b-man</metadata>
+</glsa>