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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-04 Critical: CustomScript Path Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey February 12, 2009
Scroller Gentoo
The vulnerability in Valgrind's search path poses a risk of executing unauthorized code on Gentoo platforms. Urgent mitigation is advised!
An untrusted search path vulnerability in Valgrind might result in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200902-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Valgrind: Untrusted search path Date: February 12, 2009 Bugs: #245317 ID: 200902-03

Synopsis ======= An untrusted search path vulnerability in Valgrind might result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Valgrind is an open-source memory debugger.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-util/valgrind < 3.4.0 >= 3.4.0
========== Tavis Ormandy reported that Valgrind loads a .valgrindrc file in the current working directory, executing commands specified there.
Impact ===== A local attacker could prepare a specially crafted .valgrind...

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