GLSA-200502-31 : uim: Privilege escalation vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17234

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200502-31 (uim: Privilege escalation vulnerability)

Takumi Asaki discovered that uim insufficiently checks environment variables. setuid/setgid applications linked against libuim could end up executing arbitrary code. This vulnerability only affects immodule-enabled Qt (if you build Qt 3.3.2 or later versions with USE='immqt' or USE='immqt-bc').
Impact :

A malicious local user could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges.
Workaround :

There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All uim users should upgrade to the latest available version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-i18n/uim-0.4.5.1'

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17234

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200502-31.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 3/1/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:uim, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 2/28/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0503

GLSA: 200502-31

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