Gentoo alert 200510-03 (uim)

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Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@gentoo.org>
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[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200510-03 ] Uim: Privilege escalation vulnerability
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Tue, 4 Oct 2005 20:04:28 +0200
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200510-03
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  Severity: Normal
     Title: Uim: Privilege escalation vulnerability
      Date: October 04, 2005
      Bugs: #107748
        ID: 200510-03

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Synopsis
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Under certain conditions, applications linked against Uim suffer from a
privilege escalation vulnerability.

Background
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Uim is a multilingual input method library which provides secure and
useful input method for all languages.

Affected packages
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     Package       /  Vulnerable  /                         Unaffected
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  1  app-i18n/uim      < 0.4.9.1                            >= 0.4.9.1

Description
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Masanari Yamamoto discovered that Uim uses environment variables
incorrectly. This bug causes a privilege escalation if setuid/setgid
applications are linked to libuim. This bug only affects
immodule-enabled Qt (if you build Qt 3.3.2 or later versions with
USE="immqt" or USE="immqt-bc").

Impact
======

A malicious local user could exploit this vulnerability to execute
arbitrary code with escalated privileges.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Uim users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-i18n/uim-0.4.9.1"

References
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  [ 1 ] Original advisory
        http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/uim/2005-September...

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200510-03.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0