VIPS: Privilege Escalation — GLSA 201401-29

A vulnerability in VIPS could result in privilege escalation.

Affected packages

Package	media-libs/vips on all architectures
Affected versions	< 7.22.4
Unaffected versions	>= 7.22.4

Background

VIPS is a free image processing system.

Description

VIPS 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.

Impact

A local attacker could gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted shared library.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All VIPS users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/vips-7.22.4"

NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since November 23, 2010. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.

References

CVE-2010-3364

Release date
January 26, 2014

Latest revision
January 26, 2014: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
local

Bugzilla entries

344561