CVE-2010-4000

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Summary

CVECVE-2010-4000
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-11-06 00:00:00 UTC
Updated2010-11-08 05:00:00 UTC
Descriptiongnome-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnome Gnome-shell 2.31.5 All All All
Application Gnome Gnome-shell 2.31.5 All All All

References

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644561 – (CVE-2010-4000) CVE-2010-4000 gnome-shell: insecure library loading vulnerability CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
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