<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200510-03"> <title>Uim: Privilege escalation vulnerability</title> <synopsis> Under certain conditions, applications linked against Uim suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">uim</product> <announced>2005-10-04</announced> <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised> <bug>107748</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="app-i18n/uim" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.4.9.1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.4.9.1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Uim is a multilingual input method library which provides secure and useful input method for all languages. </p> </background> <description> <p> Masanari Yamamoto discovered that Uim uses environment variables incorrectly. This bug causes a privilege escalation if setuid/setgid applications are linked to libuim. This bug only affects immodule-enabled Qt (if you build Qt 3.3.2 or later versions with USE="immqt" or USE="immqt-bc"). </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A malicious local user could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Uim users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-i18n/uim-0.4.9.1"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/uim/2005-September/001346.html">Original advisory</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3149">CVE-2005-3149</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-10-02T13:02:25Z"> koon </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-10-02T13:02:52Z"> koon </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-10-03T09:56:44Z"> adir </metadata> </glsa>