PT-2010-5230 · Gnome · Gnome Shell

Ludwig Nussel · Published 2010-11-05 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2010-4000

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 GNOME Shell version 2.31.5

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

Recommendations For GNOME Shell version 2.31.5, update to a version where this issue is fixed, as using a zero-length directory name in the LD LIBRARY PATH can lead to privilege escalation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-4000

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10366-1

Affected Products

Gnome Shell

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10366-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4000 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4000 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-4000 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4000 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644561 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4000 · Note