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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200711-12.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200711-12">
<title>Tomboy: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
<synopsis>
Tomboy doesn't properly handle environment variables, potentially allowing
a local attacker to execute arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">tomboy</product>
<announced>2007-11-08</announced>
<revised count="01">2007-11-08</revised>
<bug>189249</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-misc/tomboy" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.8.1-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.8.1-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Tomboy is a GTK-based desktop note-taking application written in C# and
the Mono C#.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Jan Oravec reported that the "/usr/bin/tomboy" script sets the
"LD_LIBRARY_PATH" environment variable incorrectly, which might result
in the current working directory (.) to be included when searching for
dynamically linked libraries of the Mono Runtime application.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A local attacker could entice a user into running Tomboy in a directory
containing a specially crafted library file to execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user running Tomboy.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
Do not run Tomboy from an untrusted working directory.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All Tomboy users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-misc/tomboy-0.8.1-r1"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4790">CVE-2005-4790</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-11-06T01:11:29Z">
rbu
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-11-06T04:11:22Z">
rbu
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-11-06T04:11:35Z">
rbu
</metadata>
</glsa>