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Gentoo: GLSA-202201-12 Normal: VIPS Security Vulnerability Notification

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Calendar Grey January 26, 2014
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A Gentoo security notice highlights a moderate level vulnerability in VIPS that could result in privilege escalation. Users are advised to upgrade promptly.
A vulnerability in VIPS could result in privilege escalation.

Summary

VIPS 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.

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Topics Covered

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Resolution

All VIPS users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/vips-7.22.4"
NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since November 23, 2010. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-3364 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-3364

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201401-29
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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: VIPS: Privilege Escalation
Date: January 26, 2014
Bugs: #344561
ID: 201401-29

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Topics Covered

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Synopsis

A vulnerability in VIPS could result in privilege escalation.

Background

VIPS is a free image processing system.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/vips < 7.22.4 >= 7.22.4

Impact

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

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.