Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.60113
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-560-1 (tomboy)
Summary:	Ubuntu USN-560-1 (tomboy)
Description:	The remote host is missing an update to tomboy announced via advisory USN-560-1. A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 6.10 Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 7.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. Jan Oravec discovered that Tomboy did not properly setup the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: tomboy 0.3.5-1ubuntu3.1 Ubuntu 6.10: tomboy 0.4.1-0ubuntu3.1 Ubuntu 7.04: tomboy 0.6.3-0ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 7.10: tomboy 0.8.0-1ubuntu0.1 After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Tomboy to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-560-1 Risk factor : High
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-4790 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188806 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00206.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00913.html http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-12.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-14.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:064 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2005:022 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_22_sr.html http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-560-1 BugTraq ID: 25341 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25341 http://osvdb.org/39577 http://osvdb.org/39578 http://secunia.com/advisories/26480 http://secunia.com/advisories/27608 http://secunia.com/advisories/27621 http://secunia.com/advisories/27799 http://secunia.com/advisories/28339 http://secunia.com/advisories/28672 XForce ISS Database: tomboy-ldlibrarypath-privilege-escalation(36054) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/36054
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