gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200502-31.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200502-31">
  <title>uim: Privilege escalation vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    Under certain conditions, applications linked against uim suffer from a
    privilege escalation vulnerability.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">uim</product>
  <announced>2005-02-28</announced>
  <revised count="01">2005-02-28</revised>
  <bug>82678</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-i18n/uim" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.4.5.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.4.5.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    uim is a simple, secure and flexible input method library.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Takumi Asaki discovered that uim insufficiently checks environment
    variables. setuid/setgid applications linked against libuim could end
    up executing arbitrary code. This vulnerability only affects
    immodule-enabled Qt (if you build Qt 3.3.2 or later versions with
    USE="immqt" or USE="immqt-bc").
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A malicious local user could exploit this vulnerability to execute
    arbitrary code with escalated privileges.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All uim users should upgrade to the latest available version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-i18n/uim-0.4.5.1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0503">CAN-2005-0503</uri>
    <uri link="https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/uim/2005-February/000996.html">uim announcement</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-02-25T09:53:35Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-02-27T12:40:49Z">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-02-28T08:59:25Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>