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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201401-28 |
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Severity: Normal |
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Title: Tomboy: Privilege escalation |
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Date: January 26, 2014 |
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Bugs: #356583 |
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ID: 201401-28 |
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Synopsis |
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A vulnerability in Tomboy could result in privilege escalation. |
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Background |
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Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 app-misc/tomboy < 1.4.2-r1 >= 1.4.2-r1 |
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Description |
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Tomboy places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, |
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which might result in the current working directory (.) to be included |
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when searching for dynamically linked libraries. |
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NOTE: This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for |
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CVE-2005-4790 (GLSA 200711-12). |
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Impact |
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A local attacker could gain escalated privileges via a specially |
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crafted shared library. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All Tomboy users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-misc/tomboy-1.4.2-r1" |
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NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are |
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available since March 02, 2011. It is likely that your system is |
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already no longer affected by this issue. |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2010-4005 |
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http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-4005 |
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[ 2 ] GLSA 200711-12 |
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http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-12.xml |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-28.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2014 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 |