Description
Uim 0.4.x before 0.4.9.1 and 0.5.0 and earlier does not properly handle the LIBUIM_VANILLA environment variable when a suid or sgid application is linked to libuim, such as immodule for Qt, which allows local users to gain privileges.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/uim/2005-September/001347.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15007 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1947 ↗
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/uim/2005-September/001346.html ↗
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015002 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17058 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17572 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1946 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-895 ↗
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-03.xml ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17043 ↗
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331620 ↗