openSUSE 10 Security Update : tomboy (tomboy-4698)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 28287

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The tomboy mediaplayer used LD_LIBRARY_PATH unsafely by allowing empty LD_LIBRARY_PATH components.

This would enable the player to load its shared libraries of the current directory which might contain user-supplied shared libraries, potentially supplied from the network by an attacker. (CVE-2005-4790)

Solution

Update the affected tomboy package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 28287

File Name: suse_tomboy-4698.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/20/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomboy

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-4790

Detections

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