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bristol: privilege escalation

Package(s):bristol CVE #(s):CVE-2010-3351
Created:November 15, 2010 Updated:November 17, 2010
Description: From the CVE entry:

startBristol in Bristol 0.60.5 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.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2010-16676 2010-10-27
Fedora FEDORA-2010-16687 2010-10-27
Fedora FEDORA-2010-16714 2010-10-28

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