PT-2010-4758 · Cowbell · Cowbell

Raphael Geissert · Published 2010-10-20 · Updated 2010-10-21 · CVE-2010-3353

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cowbell version 0.2.7.1

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory. This is due to Cowbell placing a zero-length directory name in the LD LIBRARY PATH.

Recommendations For Cowbell version 0.2.7.1, consider restricting access to the LD LIBRARY PATH environment variable to prevent malicious library loading until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-3353

Affected Products

Cowbell

References · 5

• 🔥 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598286 · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-3353 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2010-3353 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-3353 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3353 · Security Note