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uim: privilege escalation

Package(s):uim CVE #(s):CVE-2005-3149
Created:October 4, 2005 Updated:December 7, 2005
Description: 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").
Alerts:
Debian-Testing DTSA-22-1 2005-12-05
Debian DSA-895-1 2005-11-14
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:198 2005-10-26
Gentoo 200510-03 2005-10-04
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