GLSA 201401-28: Tomboy: Privilege escalation

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Tomboy: Privilege escalation
Date:	01/26/2014
Bugs:	#356583
ID:	201401-28

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Tomboy could result in privilege escalation.

Background

Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-misc/tomboy	< 1.4.2-r1	>= 1.4.2-r1	All supported architectures

Description

Tomboy 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.

NOTE: This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2005-4790 (GLSA 200711-12).

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 Tomboy users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-misc/tomboy-1.4.2-r1"

NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since March 02, 2011. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-28.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.