[MBT] new ticket for pkg gnome-core "local privilege escalation via LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

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Wed Mar 31 10:50:37 CEST 2004


Date: 2004-03-31 10:50:37+02	Author:  (kreutzm) <kreutzm at itp.uni-hannover.de> 
Title:         local privilege escalation via LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Ticket ID:     #872
Ticket URL:    http://bugs.pld-linux.org/?bug=872
Package:       gnome-core-1:1.4.2-3
Distribution:  PLD-1.0.updates.general PLD-1.1.main
Category:      security problem
Current state: opened
Text:

This might be fixed, but since I cannot access
http://bugs.pld.org.pl/index.php?bug=516
I cannot check if this is the same. 

SUSE states in SuSE-SA:2004:007:
  - gnome-session
    This updates solves a problem with the initialization of the
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH while starting GNOME by using /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome.
    This bug can lead to local privilege escalation.
    New packages are available on our FTP servers.




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