metadata/glsa/glsa-200711-12.xml

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<glsa id="200711-12">
  <title>Tomboy: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    Tomboy doesn't properly handle environment variables, potentially allowing
    a local attacker to execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">tomboy</product>
  <announced>November 08, 2007</announced>
  <revised>November 08, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>189249</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-misc/tomboy" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.8.1-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.8.1-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Tomboy is a GTK-based desktop note-taking application written in C# and
    the Mono C#.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Jan Oravec reported that the "/usr/bin/tomboy" script sets the
    "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" environment variable incorrectly, which might result
    in the current working directory (.) to be included when searching for
    dynamically linked libraries of the Mono Runtime application.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker could entice a user into running Tomboy in a directory
    containing a specially crafted library file to execute arbitrary code
    with the privileges of the user running Tomboy.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    Do not run Tomboy from an untrusted working directory.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Tomboy users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-misc/tomboy-0.8.1-r1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4790">CVE-2005-4790</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:11:29 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:11:22 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:11:35 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>