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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="202008-02">
+  <title>GNU GLOBAL: Arbitrary code execution</title>
+  <synopsis>A vulnerability in GNU GLOBAL was discovered, possibly allowing
+    remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
+  </synopsis>
+  <product type="ebuild">global</product>
+  <announced>2020-08-08</announced>
+  <revised count="1">2020-08-08</revised>
+  <bug>646348</bug>
+  <access>remote</access>
+  <affected>
+    <package name="dev-util/global" auto="yes" arch="*">
+      <unaffected range="ge">6.6.4</unaffected>
+      <vulnerable range="lt">6.6.4</vulnerable>
+    </package>
+  </affected>
+  <background>
+    <p>GNU GLOBAL is a source code tagging system that works the same way
+      across diverse environments, such as Emacs editor, Vi editor, Less
+      viewer, Bash shell, various web browsers, etc.
+    </p>
+  </background>
+  <description>
+    <p>A vulnerability was found in an undocumented function of gozilla.</p>
+  </description>
+  <impact type="normal">
+    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted URL
+      using GNU GLOBAL, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with
+      the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.
+    </p>
+  </impact>
+  <workaround>
+    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+  </workaround>
+  <resolution>
+    <p>All GNU GLOBAL users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+    
+    <code>
+      # emerge --sync
+      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-util/global-6.6.4"
+    </code>
+  </resolution>
+  <references>
+    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17531">CVE-2017-17531</uri>
+  </references>
+  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-08-08T02:37:03Z">sam_c</metadata>
+  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-08-08T04:17:26Z">sam_c</metadata>
+</glsa>