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Calendar Grey January 26, 2014
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The Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201401-28 highlights a privilege escalation risk in the Tomboy app, urging users to apply updates and security measures
A vulnerability in Tomboy could result in privilege escalation.

Summary

Tomboy places 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. NOTE: This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2005-4790 (GLSA 200711-12).

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo privilege escalation risk desktop application normal Tomboy

Resolution

All Tomboy users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-misc/tomboy-1.4.2-r1"
NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since March 02, 2011. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-4005 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-4005 [ 2 ] GLSA 200711-12 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200711-12

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201401-28
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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: Normal
Title: Tomboy: Privilege escalation
Date: January 26, 2014
Bugs: #356583
ID: 201401-28

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo privilege escalation risk desktop application normal Tomboy

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Tomboy could result in privilege escalation.

Background

Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-misc/tomboy < 1.4.2-r1 >= 1.4.2-r1

Impact

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

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.