A vulnerability in Tomboy could result in privilege escalation.
Package | app-misc/tomboy on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 1.4.2-r1 |
Unaffected versions | >= 1.4.2-r1 |
Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application.
Tomboy places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which might result in the current working directory (.) to be included when searching for dynamically linked libraries.
NOTE: This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2005-4790 (GLSA 200711-12).
A local attacker could gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted shared library.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Tomboy users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-misc/tomboy-1.4.2-r1"
NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since March 02, 2011. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.
Release date
January 26, 2014
Latest revision
January 26, 2014: 1
Severity
normal
Exploitable
local
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