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Gentoo: GLSA-200502-31 Standard: Uim Elevated Privilege Risk

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Calendar Grey February 28, 2005
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The Gentoo Linux Security Announce (GLSA) GLSA-200502-31 reveals a critical privilege escalation flaw in uim, risking system security for users.
Under certain conditions, applications linked against uim suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-31 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: uim: Privilege escalation vulnerability Date: February 28, 2005 Bugs: #82678 ID: 200502-31

Synopsis ======= Under certain conditions, applications linked against uim suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability.
Background ========= uim is a simple, secure and flexible input method library.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-i18n/uim < 0.4.5.1 >= 0.4.5.1
========== Takumi Asaki discovered that uim insufficiently checks environment variables. setuid/setgid applications linked against libuim could end up executing arbitrary code. T...

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