A vulnerability in VIPS could result in privilege escalation.

Announced

2014-01-26

Revised

2014-01-26

Access

local

Bugs

#344561

Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201401-29

Affected packages

Package	Arch	Vulnerable	Unaffected
media-libs/vips	*	< 7.22.4	>= 7.22.4

Background

VIPS is a free image processing system.

Description

VIPS places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which might result in the current working directory (.) to be included when searching for dynamically linked libraries.

Impact

A local attacker could gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted shared library.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All VIPS users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/vips-7.22.4"

NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since November 23, 2010. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.

References

• CVE-2010-3364