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Severity: Low
Title: LimeWire: Disclosure of sensitive information
Date: March 31, 2005
Bugs: #85380
ID: 200503-37

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Synopsis
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Two vulnerabilities in LimeWire can be exploited to disclose sensitive
information.

Background
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LimeWire is a Java peer-to-peer client compatible with the Gnutella
file-sharing protocol.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-p2p/limewire < 4.8.1 >= 4.8.1

Description
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Two input validation errors were found in the handling of Gnutella GET
requests (CAN-2005-0788) and magnet requests (CAN-2005-0789).

Impact
======

A remote attacker can craft a specific Gnutella GET request or use
directory traversal on magnet requests to read arbitrary files on the
system with the rights of the user running LimeWire.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All LimeWire users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-p2p/limewire-4.8.1"

References
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[ 1 ] CAN-2005-0788
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0788
[ 2 ] CAN-2005-0789
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0789
[ 3 ] Secunia Advisory SA14555
http://secunia.com/advisories/14555/

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-37.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0

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