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Tomboy Insecure LD_LIBRARY_PATH Privilege Escalation
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA26480
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Release Date:
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2007-08-16
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Last Update:
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2007-11-09
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Popularity:
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7,457 views
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Critical:
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Not 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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Unpatched
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| Software: | Tomboy 0.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-4790
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Description:
Jab Oravec has reported a security issue in Tomboy, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The security issue is caused due to the "/usr/bin/tomboy" script incorrectly setting the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This can be exploited to gain escalated privileges by e.g. tricking a user into running Tomboy in a directory containing a malicious library.
Solution:
Run Tomboy in trusted directories only.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Jab Oravec
Changelog:
2007-11-09: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188806
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