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XnView / NView Insecure RPATH Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA18235
Release Date: 2005-12-29
Last Update: 2006-01-13
Popularity: 8,579 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:NView 4.x
XnView 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Advisory Content (Page 2 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Solution:
Do not run the affected binaries when in a working directory that is writable by other users.

Provided and/or discovered by:
nelchael

Changelog:
2006-01-13: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
Gentoo Bugzilla:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117063

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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