Description: A vulnerability has been reported in GNOME, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to a problem in gnome-session during initialisation of the "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" environment variable when starting GNOME via "/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome".
Solution: Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.
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