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Gentoo: GLSA-200503-01 Normal: Qt Untrusted Library Path Issue

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Calendar Grey March 1, 2005
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Qt may load shared libraries from an untrusted, world-writable directory, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200503-01
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  Severity: Normal
     Title: Qt: Untrusted library search path
      Date: March 01, 2005
      Bugs: #75181
        ID: 200503-01


Synopsis
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Qt may load shared libraries from an untrusted, world-writable
directory, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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Qt is a cross-platform GUI toolkit used by KDE.

Affected packages
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     Package      /  Vulnerable  /                          Unaffected
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  1  x11-libs/qt     < 3.3.4-r2                            >= 3.3.4-r2

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Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has discovered
that Qt searches for shared libraries in an untrusted, world...
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Topics Covered

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Background

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