GLSA 200502-31: uim: Privilege escalation vulnerability
| Severity: | normal |
| Title: | uim: Privilege escalation vulnerability |
| Date: | 02/28/2005 |
| Bugs: | |
| 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:
Concerns?
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License
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