The (1) tomboy and (2) tomboy-panel scripts in GNOME Tomboy 1.5.2 and earlier place 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. NOTE: vector 1 exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2005-4790.2.

Tomboy security fix CVE-2010-4005 and note data loss with Tomboy sync, for notes created in Gnote. CVE-2010-4005: CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.7 (low) (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P): Code Injection (CWE-94)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201401-28 (Tomboy: Privilege escalation)

    Tomboy places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which       might result in the current working directory (.) to be included when       searching for dynamically linked libraries.
    NOTE: This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for       CVE-2005-4790 (GLSA 200711-12).
  Impact :

    A local attacker could gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted       shared library.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Version 1.6.0 :

  - Grammar and language fixes (bgo#642156)

    - Changed GetSelectedNotebook from private to public so       it can be used by add-ins (Robert Nordan)

    - Fix tomboy insecure LD_LIBRARY_PATH (bgo#635614, Luis       Medinas)

    - Fix CVE-2010-4005 (Luis Medinas). Originally found by       Ludwig Nussel <lnussel at novell.com>

    - Fix Remove title format from add-ins descriptions       (bgo#636606, Paul Cutler)

    - Fix Replace Computer Name with Login Name in SSH sync       setup (bgo#633605, Paul Cutler)

    - Translation Updates: es, br, io, bg, cn, cz, dut, fr,       gl, de, el, gu, he, hu, in, ja, ko, lv, no, pl, pt,       ru, sk, sl, sv, th, ug, and zh.

    - Added new translation Luganda (ug).

Packaging changes :

  - The .desktop file is included.

    - For F14, the panel applet is enabled.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in tomboy :

The (1) tomboy and (2) tomboy-panel scripts in GNOME Tomboy 1.5.2 and earlier place 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. NOTE: vector 1 exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2005-4790.2 (CVE-2010-4005).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
75758	openSUSE Security Update : tomboy (openSUSE-SU-2010:1001-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
72130	GLSA-201401-28 : Tomboy: Privilege escalation	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	medium
55154	Fedora 15 : tomboy-1.6.0-1.fc15 (2011-7997)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
55153	Fedora 14 : tomboy-1.6.0-1.fc14 (2011-7994)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
52061	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : tomboy (MDVSA-2011:035)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2010-4005

high

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium