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Severity: Normal
Title: Tomboy: Privilege escalation
Date: January 26, 2014
Bugs: #356583
ID: 201401-28

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Synopsis
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A vulnerability in Tomboy could result in privilege escalation.

Background
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Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application.

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

Description
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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).

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

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

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

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-28.xml

Concerns?
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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.

License
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Copyright 2014 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons – Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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