Bug 644606 (CVE-2010-4005)
| Summary: | CVE-2010-4005 tomboy: insecure library loading vulnerability | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Vincent Danen <vdanen> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | security-response-team |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-06-10 10:57:24 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 644956 | ||
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Created tomboy tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 644956] This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products. |
Ludwig Nussel discovered that tomboy contained a script that could be abused by an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability is due to an insecure change to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and environment variable used by ld.so(8) to look for libraries in directories other than the standard paths. When there is an empty item in the colon-separated list of directories in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, ld.so(8) treats it as a '.' (current working directory). If the given script is executed from a directory where a local attacker could write files, there is a chance for exploitation. In Fedora, both /usr/bin/tomboy and /usr/bin/tomboy-panel re-set LD_LIBRARY_PATH insecurely: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/tomboy${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" A solution is to patch the script to use ':+:' properly: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/foo${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}