Bug 344561 – <media-libs/vips-7.22.4: Insecure Environment Processing Allows Privilege Escalation (CVE-2010-3364)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Tim Sammut (RETIRED) 2010-11-07 18:04:04 UTC]

From the Secunia advisory at: http://secunia.com/advisories/41997/

A security issue has been reported in VIPS, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the vips-7.22 script incorrectly setting the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This can be exploited to gain escalated privileges e.g. by tricking a user into running the script in a directory containing a malicious library.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 7.22.3.

[Comment 1 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2010-11-10 06:00:00 UTC]

7.22.4 that fixes this problem is in the tree. Arch teams stabilize it and also stabilize nip2 as it's good idea for them to go stable together.

media-libs/vips-7.22.4
media-gfx/nip2-7.22.3

[Comment 2 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2010-11-10 12:16:40 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo 2010-11-10 14:12:31 UTC]

all ok on amd64

[Comment 4 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2010-11-10 21:21:34 UTC]

amd64 done. Thanks Agostino

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-11-23 20:39:22 UTC]

Stable for PPC.

[Comment 6 Tim Sammut (RETIRED) 2010-11-23 20:40:58 UTC]

Thanks, folks. GLSA request filed.

[Comment 7 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2014-01-26 19:54:22 UTC]

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201401-29 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-29.xml
by GLSA coordinator Mikle Kolyada (Zlogene).