CVE-2005-3149 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331620 http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/uim/2005-September/001346.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/uim/2005-September/001347.html http://secunia.com/advisories/17043 http://secunia.com/advisories/17058 http://secunia.com/advisories/17572 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015002 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-895 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-03.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15007 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1946 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1947