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Calendar Grey January 26, 2014
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An urgent vulnerability involving code execution in GNU TeXmacs demands prompt patches to secure Gentoo environments.
A vulnerability in GNU TeXmacs could result in privilege escalation.

Summary

The texmacs and tm_mupad_help scripts in TeXmacs place a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which might result in the current working directory (.) to be included when searching for dynamically linked libraries.

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo privilege escalation gnu texmacs

Resolution

All GNU TeXmacs users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/texmacs-1.0.7.2-r1"
NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since April 02, 2011. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-3394 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-3394

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201401-27
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: GNU TeXmacs: Privilege escalation
Date: January 26, 2014
Bugs: #337532
ID: 201401-27

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Topics Covered

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Synopsis

A vulnerability in GNU TeXmacs could result in privilege escalation.

Background

GNU TeXmacs is a free WYSIWYG editing platform with special features for scientists.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-office/texmacs < 1.0.7.2-r1 >= 1.0.7.2-r1

Impact

===== A local attacker could gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted shared library.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.