CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-4595

7.2 HIGH Published 2005-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2005-12-31
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability (RPATH) in XnView 1.70 and NView 4.51 on Gentoo Linux allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library in the current working directory.

Affected configurations

• gentoo nview 4.51 • gentoo xnview 1.70

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117063 bugs.gentoo.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/18235 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18240 Vendor Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-18.xml Patch
http://www.osvdb.org/22093 www.osvdb.org
http://www.osvdb.org/22094 www.osvdb.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16087 Patch
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23910 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117063 bugs.gentoo.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/18235 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18240 Vendor Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-18.xml Patch
http://www.osvdb.org/22093 www.osvdb.org
http://www.osvdb.org/22094 www.osvdb.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16087 Patch
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23910 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com