CVE-2005-4595

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Untrusted search path vulnerability (RPATH) in XnView 1.70 and NView 4.51 on Gentoo Linux allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library in the current working directory.

Untrusted search path vulnerability (RPATH) in XnView 1.70 and NView 4.51 on Gentoo Linux allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library in the current working directory.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Gentoo

First reported 19 years ago

2005-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:29:00

Affected Software

Gentoo NView 4.51

4.51

Gentoo XnView 1.70

1.70

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117063

18235

Vendor Advisory

18240

Vendor Advisory

GLSA-200512-18

Patch

22093

22094

16087

Patch

xnview-rpath-gain-privileges(23910)

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