metadata/glsa/glsa-201401-27.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201401-27">
  <title>GNU TeXmacs: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in GNU TeXmacs could result in privilege
    escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">texmacs</product>
  <announced>January 26, 2014</announced>
  <revised>January 26, 2014: 2</revised>
  <bug>337532</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-office/texmacs" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.0.7.2-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.7.2-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>GNU TeXmacs is a free WYSIWYG editing platform with special features for
      scientists.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>The texmacs and tm_mupad_help scripts in TeXmacs place a zero-length
      directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which might result in the current
      working directory (.) to be included when searching for dynamically
      linked libraries.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A local attacker could gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted
      shared library.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All GNU TeXmacs users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-office/texmacs-1.0.7.2-r1"
    </code>
    
    <p>NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are
      available since April 02, 2011. It is likely that your system is already
      no longer affected by this issue.
    </p>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-3394">
      CVE-2010-3394
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:38:13 +0000">
    underling
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:54:29 +0000">Zlogene</metadata>
</glsa>