CVE-2010-4000

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

gnome-shell in GNOME Shell 2.31.5 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.

gnome-shell in GNOME Shell 2.31.5 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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 14 years ago

2010-11-06 00:00:00

Last updated 14 years ago

2010-11-08 05:00:00

Affected Software

GNOME gnome-shell 2.31.5

2.31.5

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644561

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