Bug 393281 (CVE-2005-4791)

Summary:	CVE-2005-4791 liferea uses insecure LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bdpepple
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2005-4791
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Bug Depends On:	393291, 393301, 393311
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-11-20 22:10:54 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2005-4791 to the following vulnerability:

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in SUSE Linux 10.0 cause the working directory to be added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) liferea or (2) banshee.

References:

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_22_sr.html

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2007-11-22 15:49:26 UTC

Version of bashee we ship are not affected.

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2007-11-22 15:50:11 UTC

s/bashee/banshee/ of course... sigh...

Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2008-01-08 12:37:14 UTC

All affected Fedora versions are updated.