CVE-2008-5987

The CVE-2008-5987 entry concerns Eye of GNOME (eog) up to at least version 2.22.3, with a vulnerability in the Python interface. The issue arises from an untrusted search path: a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory can be executed, due to the PySys_SetArgv function. This loc...

CVE-2008-2378

The CVE-2008-2378 issue concerns the hf HF kernel component (hfkernel) used by the hf package. The vulnerability is a local untrusted-search-path flaw that could allow privilege escalation via a Trojan horse killall executable found in a PATH directory, related to improper handling of the -k opti...

Design/Logic Flaw

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2 and earlier on Unix and Linux allows attackers to gain privileges via a Trojan Horse program in an unspecified directory that is associated with an insecure RPATH...

CVE-2008-4815

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2 and earlier on Unix and Linux allows attackers to gain privileges via a Trojan Horse program in an unspecified directory that is associated with an insecure RPATH...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200810-02 (portage)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200810-02. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2006-7234

CVE-2006-7234 affects Lynx prior to 2.8.6rel.4 and is an Untrusted search path vulnerability that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via malicious (1) .mailcap and (2) mime.types files in the current working directory. The MiracleLinux OSS advisories list this CVE and reference Lynx 2.8...

CVE-2008-3357

Untrusted search path vulnerability in ingvalidpw in Ingres 2.6, Ingres 2006 release 1 aka 9.0.4, and Ingres 2006 release 2 aka 9.1.0 on Linux and HP-UX allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted shared library, related to a "pointer overwrite vulnerability."...

Design/Logic Flaw

Untrusted search path vulnerability in a certain Red Hat build script for Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability sblim libraries before 1-13a.el46.1 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 4, and before 1-31.el52.1 in RHEL 5, allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious library...

CVE-2008-1951

Untrusted search path vulnerability in a certain Red Hat build script for Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability sblim libraries before 1-13a.el46.1 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 4, and before 1-31.el52.1 in RHEL 5, allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious library...

CVE-2008-1951

CVE-2008-1951 is an untrusted search path vulnerability in sblim libraries on Red Hat Enterprise Linux: an attacker could place a malicious libc.so in a directory in the RPATH under /var/tmp, enabling local privilege escalation. The issue is demonstrated via a malicious libc.so used by tog-pegasu...

CVE-2008-2366

OpenOffice.org on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3/4 is affected by CVE-2008-2366 due to an insecure relative RPATH in the OpenOffice memory allocator path, allowing local privilege escalation via a malicious library in the user’s current working directory. The issue is documented in Red Hat RHSA-2008:...

CVE-2008-2540

Apple Safari on Mac OS X, and before 3.1.2 on Windows, does not prompt the user before downloading an object that has an unrecognized content type, which allows remote attackers to place malware into the 1 Desktop directory on Windows or 2 Downloads directory on Mac OS X, and subsequently allows...

Design/Logic Flaw

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC before 0.9.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library under the modules/ or plugins/ subdirectories of the current working directory...

CVE-2008-2147

CVE-2008-2147 affects VLC media player and relates to an untrusted search path vulnerability that could allow local privilege escalation via a malicious library placed in modules/ or plugins/ within the current working directory. Public disclosures in 2008-2009 reference VLC and related Debian/Ge...

CVE-2008-2147

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC before 0.9.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library under the modules/ or plugins/ subdirectories of the current working directory...

CVE-2008-1274

Untrusted search path vulnerability in man in IBM AIX 6.1.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious program in the man directory...

Design/Logic Flaw

BadBlue 2.72b and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an invalid browse parameter, which reveals the installation path in an error message...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : linux-source-2.6.10/2.6.12/2.6.15 vulnerabilities (USN-302-1)

An integer overflow was discovered in the doreplace function. A local user process with the CAPNETADMIN capability could exploit this to execute arbitrary commands with full root privileges. However, none of Ubuntu's supported packages use this capability with any non-root user, so this only...

CVE-2003-1452

CVE-2003-1452 describes an untrusted search path vulnerability in Qualcomm qpopper 4.0–4.05. The root cause is PATH environment variable manipulation that causes the daemon to execute a malicious smbpasswd program, enabling local users to run arbitrary code. The available records consistently sta...

CVE-2007-5618

CVE-2007-5618 refers to an unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in VMware products (Workstation, Player, Server, ACE) prior to specified fixed versions. The issue allows local users to gain privileges by exploiting improperly quoted paths in Authorization and other services. Affected ranges...