Bug 83165 – app-i18n/uim: Possible privilege escalation through linked setuid/setgid apps

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 82678
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-02-24 02:40:08 UTC]

uim 0.4.5.1 is released. This release is for *security fix*.

 http://uim.freedesktop.org/releases/uim-0.4.5.1.tar.gz
 sha1sum:4a113fc3472fdf7561eb2ad57af189f94a7b17ee  uim-0.4.5.1.tar.gz

All uim except 0.4.5.1 and 0.4.6beta1 have a security hole.

If you are using 'immodule for Qt' enabled Qt, you should upgrade your 
uim to 0.4.5.1 or 0.4.6beta1. (We'll release 0.4.6beta1 ASAP.)

Brief of the bug
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Vulnerability  : privilege escalation
Problem-Type   : local

Takumi ASAKI discovered that uim always trusts environment variables. 
But this is not correct behavior, sometimes environment variables 
shouldn't be trusted. This bug causes privilege escalation when libuim 
is linked against setuid/setgid application. Since GTK+ prohibits 
setuid/setgid applications, the bug appears only in 'immodule for Qt' 
enabled Qt. (Normal Qt is also safe.)

[Comment 1 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-02-24 02:42:37 UTC]

This is CAN-2005-0503
0.4.5.1 is already in the tree, needing stable keywords from alpha, amd64, ppc.

[Comment 2 Jochen Maes (RETIRED) 2005-02-24 02:54:42 UTC]

testing on ppc

[Comment 3 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-02-24 02:58:37 UTC]

Sorry for the dupe, please ignore this bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82678 ***

[Comment 4 Jochen Maes (RETIRED) 2005-02-24 03:00:29 UTC]

stable on ppc