GLSA 200502-31: uim: Privilege escalation vulnerability

Severity:normal
Title:uim: Privilege escalation vulnerability
Date:02/28/2005
Bugs: #82678
ID:200502-31

Synopsis

Under certain conditions, applications linked against uim suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Background

uim is a simple, secure and flexible input method library.

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected Architecture(s)
app-i18n/uim < 0.4.5.1 >= 0.4.5.1 All supported architectures

Description

Takumi Asaki discovered that uim insufficiently checks environment variables. setuid/setgid applications linked against libuim could end up executing arbitrary code. This vulnerability only affects immodule-enabled Qt (if you build Qt 3.3.2 or later versions with USE="immqt" or USE="immqt-bc").

Impact

A malicious local user could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All uim users should upgrade to the latest available version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-i18n/uim-0.4.5.1"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-31.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

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