CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4005
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-11-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
The (1) tomboy and (2) tomboy-panel scripts in GNOME Tomboy 1.5.2 and earlier place a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory. NOTE: vector 1 exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2005-4790.2.
Affected configurations
• gnome tomboy (<= 1.5.2)
• gnome tomboy 1.0.1
• gnome tomboy 1.2.2
• gnome tomboy 1.4.2
• gnome tomboy 1.5.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:035 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0457 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644606 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:035 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0457 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644606 bugzilla.redhat.com