gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201401-27.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201401-27">
<title>GNU TeXmacs: Privilege escalation</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability in GNU TeXmacs could result in privilege
escalation.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">texmacs</product>
<announced>2014-01-26</announced>
<revised count="2">2014-01-26</revised>
<bug>337532</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-office/texmacs" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.0.7.2-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.0.7.2-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>GNU TeXmacs is a free WYSIWYG editing platform with special features for
scientists.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>The texmacs and tm_mupad_help scripts in TeXmacs place 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.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="high">
<p>A local attacker could gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted
shared library.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All GNU TeXmacs users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-office/texmacs-1.0.7.2-r1"
</code>
<p>NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are
available since April 02, 2011. It is likely that your system is already
no longer affected by this issue.
</p>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-3394">
CVE-2010-3394
</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2011-10-07T23:38:13Z">
underling
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-01-26T00:54:29Z">Zlogene</metadata>
</glsa>