An environment variable processing error has been reported in Banshee, possibly allowing local attacker to load a specially crafted shared library.
Package | media-sound/banshee on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 1.8.0-r1 |
Unaffected versions | >= 1.8.0-r1 |
Banshee is a multimedia management and playback application for GNOME.
Banshee places a zero-length directory name in PATH, which allows libraries to be loaded from the working directory.
A local attacker could put specially crafted library into working directory of Banshee, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or a Denial of Service condition.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Banshee users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/banshee-1.8.0-r1"
NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since November 17, 2010. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.
Release date
February 05, 2014
Latest revision
February 05, 2014: 1
Severity
low
Exploitable
local
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