CVE-2010-3357 Information

Description

gnome-subtitles 1.0 places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598289 http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-subtitles/commit/?id=44370dc2a87f7fa0d6c9730979514bd407a37c65 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049184.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049275.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049288.html http://secunia.com/advisories/41807