VIPS: Privilege Escalation

VIPS: Privilege Escalation A vulnerability in VIPS could result in privilege escalation. vips 2014-01-26 2014-01-26 344561 local 7.22.4 7.22.4

VIPS is a free image processing system.

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.

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

There is no known workaround at this time.

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.

CVE-2010-3364 underling Zlogene