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uim Environment Variable Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA17043
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Release Date:
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2005-10-04
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Last Update:
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2005-11-15
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Popularity:
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7,486 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | uim 0.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Masanari Yamamoto has reported a vulnerability in uim, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to the incorrect use of environment variables by several functions in "uim/uim-custom.c". This can be exploited to gain escalated privileges when libuim is linked against an application running setuid/setgid (e.g. "immodule for Qt" enabled Qt).
The vulnerability has been reported in stable versions prior to 0.4.9.1, and in development versions prior to 0.5.0.1.
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