gnc-test-env in GnuCash 2.3.15 and earlier 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.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-09 (Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011)

    Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the packages listed below.
      Please review the CVE identifiers in the Reference section for details.
      FMOD Studio       PEAR Mail       LVM2       GnuCash       xine-lib       Last.fm Scrobbler       WebKitGTK+       shadow tool suite       PEAR       unixODBC       Resource Agents       mrouted       rsync       XML Security Library       xrdb       Vino       OProfile       syslog-ng       sFlow Toolkit       GNOME Display Manager       libsoup       CA Certificates       Gitolite       QtCreator       Racer   Impact :

    A context-dependent attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges,       execute arbitrary code, cause Denial of Service, obtain sensitive       information, or otherwise bypass security restrictions.
  Workaround :

    There are no known workarounds at this time.

A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in gnucash :

gnc-test-env in GnuCash 2.3.15 and earlier 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 (CVE-2010-3999).

The affected /usr/bin/gnc-test-env file has been removed to mitigate the CVE-2010-3999 vulnerability as gnc-test-env is only used for tests and while building gnucash.

Additionally for Mandriva 2010.1 gnucash-2.2.9 was not compatible with guile. This update adapts gnucash to the new API of guile.

This removes an unneeded file in GnuCash that could cause a security issue if ran from a directory that other users had write access to.

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.

This update removes an unneeded file that could cause a security issue if ran from a directory that other users had write access to.

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.

This updates GnuCash to the latest 2.4 development release, and removes an unneeded file that could cause a security issue if ran from a directory that other users had write access to.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
79962	GLSA-201412-09 : Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
50820	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gnucash (MDVSA-2010:241)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
50484	Fedora 14 : gnucash-2.3.15-2.fc14 (2010-16762)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
50420	Fedora 12 : gnucash-2.2.9-5.fc12 (2010-16622)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
50419	Fedora 13 : gnucash-2.3.15-2.fc13 (2010-16605)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2010-3999

high

Tenable Plugins

critical

medium

medium

medium

medium