CVE-2010-4005 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2010-4005 at MITRE

Description

The (1) tomboy and (2) tomboy-panel scripts in GNOME Tomboy 1.5.2 and earlier place 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. NOTE: vector 1 exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2005-4790.2.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.9
Vector	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 642830 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2010:023, published Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:00:00 +0000

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`tomboy >= 1.15.5-1.3` `tomboy-lang >= 1.15.5-1.3`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10437

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 17:52:30 2013
CVE page last modified: Sat Nov 1 19:33:53 2025