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Gentoo: GLSA-200510-14 Low: RUNPATH Escalation Risk in Multiple Packages

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Calendar Grey October 17, 2005
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Addressing RUNPATH concerns in Gentoo is vital for preventing privilege escalation among portage group users through various security measures and practices
Multiple packages suffer from RUNPATH issues that may allow users in the "portage" group to escalate privileges.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-14 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: Perl, Qt-UnixODBC, CMake: RUNPATH issues Date: October 17, 2005 Bugs: #105719, #105721, #106678 ID: 200510-14

Synopsis ======= Multiple packages suffer from RUNPATH issues that may allow users in the "portage" group to escalate privileges.
Background ========= Perl is a stable, cross-platform programming language created by Larry Wall. Qt-UnixODBC is an ODBC library for Qt. CMake is a cross-platform build environment.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-lang/perl < 5.8.7-r1 >= 5.8.7-r1 ...

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security advisory privilege escalation Gentoo Linux Perl RUNPATH issue Qt-UnixODBC CMake

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security advisory privilege escalation Gentoo Linux Perl RUNPATH issue Qt-UnixODBC CMake

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