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Gentoo: GLSA-200510-03 Normal: Uim Privilege Escalation Issue

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Calendar Grey October 4, 2005
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The Uim package in Gentoo Linux has been flagged for possible privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Updating to the latest version is essential for system security
Under certain conditions, applications linked against Uim suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Uim: Privilege escalation vulnerability Date: October 04, 2005 Bugs: #107748 ID: 200510-03

Synopsis ======= Under certain conditions, applications linked against Uim suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability.
Background ========= Uim is a multilingual input method library which provides secure and useful input method for all languages.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-i18n/uim < 0.4.9.1 >= 0.4.9.1
========== Masanari Yamamoto discovered that Uim uses environment variables incorrectly. This bug causes a privilege escalation i...

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