Gentoo: GLSA-200711-12 Normal: Tomboy Code Execution Risk
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November 8, 2007
Tomboy doesn't properly handle environment variables, potentially allowing a local attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Summary
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200711-12
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Tomboy: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Date: November 08, 2007
Bugs: #189249
ID: 200711-12
Synopsis
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Tomboy doesn't properly handle environment variables, potentially
allowing a local attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Background
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Tomboy is a GTK-based desktop note-taking application written in C# and
the Mono C#.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-misc/tomboy < 0.8.1-r1 >= 0.8.1-r1
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Jan Oravec reported that the "/usr/bin/tomboy" script sets the
"LD_LIBRARY_PATH...Read the Full Advisory
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