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TITLE:
Liferea Insecure LD_LIBRARY_PATH Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27771

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27771/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Liferea 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/16365/

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

The security issue is caused due to the Liferea starter 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 Liferea in a directory containing a malicious library.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 1.4.8.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.4.8.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor. Originally reported in a SUSE advisory.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=555823

OTHER REFERENCES:
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_22_sr.html

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