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[USN-560-1] Tomboy vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-560-1           January 07, 2008
tomboy vulnerability
CVE-2005-4790
Kwetsbare Ubuntu versies:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 7.10

Kwetsbare pakketten:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
tomboy 0.3.5-1ubuntu3.1
Ubuntu 6.10
tomboy 0.4.1-0ubuntu3.1
Ubuntu 7.10
tomboy 0.8.0-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 7.04
tomboy 0.6.3-0ubuntu1.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Tomboy to effect the necessary changes.

Jan Oravec discovered that Tomboy did not properly setup the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program.