[SA18235] XnView / NView Insecure RPATH Vulnerability

TITLE: XnView / NView Insecure RPATH Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA18235 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/18235/ CRITICAL: Less critical IMPACT: Privilege escalation WHERE: Local system SOFTWARE: XnView 1.x http://secunia.com/product/6705/ NView 4.x...

XnView: Privilege escalation

Background XnView is an efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter, distributed free for non-commercial use. Description Krzysiek Pawlik of Gentoo Linux discovered that the XnView package for IA32 used the DTRPATH field insecurely, causing the dynamic loader to search for shared libraries...