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GLSA-200512-18 : XnView: Privilege escalation

high Nessus Plugin ID 20371

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-200512-18 (XnView: Privilege escalation)

 Krzysiek Pawlik of Gentoo Linux discovered that the XnView package for IA32 used the DT_RPATH field insecurely, causing the dynamic loader to search for shared libraries in potentially untrusted directories.
 Impact :

 A local attacker could create a malicious shared object that would be loaded and executed when a user attempted to use an XnView utility.
 This would allow a malicious user to effectively hijack XnView and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the program.
 Workaround :

 The system administrator may use the chrpath utility to remove the DT_RPATH field from the XnView utilities:
 # emerge app-admin/chrpath # chrpath --delete /opt/bin/nconvert /opt/bin/nview /opt/bin/xnview

Solution

All XnView users on the x86 platform should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=x11-misc/xnview-1.70-r1'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200512-18

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20371

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200512-18.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 12/31/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/30/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/29/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-4595

GLSA: 200512-18