CVE-2009-3736 Information

Description

ltdl.c in libltdl in GNU Libtool 1.5.x and 2.2.6 before 2.2.6b as used in Ham Radio Control Libraries Q and possibly other products attempts to open a .la file in the current working directory which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.

Reference

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.2.6a-2.2.6b.diff.gz http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?h=branch-1-5&id=29b48580df75f0c5baa2962548a4c101ec7ed7ec http://hamlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hamlib/trunk/libltdl/Makefile.am?revision=2841&view=markup http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035133.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035168.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054656.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054915.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054921.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2009-11/msg00059.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2009-11/msg00065.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/37414 http://secunia.com/advisories/37489 http://secunia.com/advisories/37997 http://secunia.com/advisories/38190 http://secunia.com/advisories/38577 http://secunia.com/advisories/38617 http://secunia.com/advisories/38696 http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 http://secunia.com/advisories/39299 http://secunia.com/advisories/39347 http://secunia.com/advisories/43617 http://secunia.com/advisories/55721 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201311-10.xml http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100074869 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:307 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:035 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:091 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:105 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0039.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37128 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0574 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537941 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11687 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6951 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg01512.html