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TITLE:
Tomboy Insecure LD_LIBRARY_PATH Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26480

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26480/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Tomboy 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/15337/

DESCRIPTION:
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.

SOLUTION:
Run Tomboy in trusted directories only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jab Oravec

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188806

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