Tomboy: Privilege escalation

Tomboy: Privilege escalation A vulnerability in Tomboy could result in privilege escalation. tomboy 2014-01-26 2014-01-26: 1 356583 local 1.4.2-r1 1.4.2-r1

Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application.

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).

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

There is no known workaround at this time.

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.

CVE-2010-4005 GLSA 200711-12 underling Zlogene