spice-gtk: Privilege escalation

Background

spice-gtk is a set of GObject and Gtk objects for connecting to Spice servers and a client GUI.

Description

spice-gtk does not properly sanitize the DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable.

Impact

A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All spice-gtk users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/spice-gtk-0.14"