Bug 189249 – app-misc/tomboy < 0.8.1-r1 Insecure LD_LIBRARY_PATH Privilege Escalation (CVE-2005-4790)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Matt Fleming (RETIRED) 2007-08-17 16:50:44 UTC]

Jab Oravec has reported a security issue in Tomboy, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the "/usr/bin/tomboy" script incorrectly setting the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This can be exploited to gain escalated privileges by e.g. tricking a user into running Tomboy in a directory containing a malicious library.

[Comment 1 Matt Fleming (RETIRED) 2007-08-17 16:52:35 UTC]

CC'ing maintainers and setting whiteboard status.

[Comment 2 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) 2007-08-23 12:15:49 UTC]

*** Bug 188806 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) 2007-09-27 22:05:50 UTC]

0.8.0 has been released couple days ago, anyone knows if includes a fix for this? I don't see anything in the changelog...

[Comment 4 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2007-10-09 23:08:58 UTC]

Upstream bug filed: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485224

[Comment 5 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2007-10-15 23:32:38 UTC]

Created attachment 133582 [details, diff]
tomboy-trunk-insecure-ldpath.patch

Should fix this issue.

[Comment 6 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2007-10-24 22:24:18 UTC]

As upstream is unresponsive could you please include the patch without the change from sh -> bash in the first line (I talked to uberlord about it, the syntax is not bash specific as I first thought)?

[Comment 7 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2007-11-04 01:32:29 UTC]

[02:30] <compnerd> rbu: tomboy-0.8.1-r1 commited
[02:30] <rbu> compnerd: thanks

Arches, please test and mark stable app-misc/tomboy-0.8.1-r1.
Target keywords : "amd64 ppc x86"

[Comment 8 Dawid Węgliński (RETIRED) 2007-11-04 10:17:59 UTC]

Stable on x86

[Comment 9 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2007-11-05 18:01:09 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 10 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2007-11-06 00:53:33 UTC]

err... amd64 done... sorry

[Comment 11 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2007-11-06 01:11:43 UTC]

GLSA request filed.

[Comment 12 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2007-11-06 19:21:35 UTC]

I've updated this in the snapshot, so I'm removing release.

[Comment 13 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) 2007-11-08 20:10:37 UTC]

GLSA 200711-12