CVE-2010-3998 Information

Description

The (1) banshee-1 and (2) muinshee scripts in Banshee 1.8.0 and earlier place 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. NOTE: Banshee might also be affected using GST_PLUGIN_PATH.

Reference

http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/unstable/1.9.0/banshee-1-1.9.0.news http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050744.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050747.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050756.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42234 http://secunia.com/advisories/42237 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:034 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44752 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2964 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644554