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SuSE: blam 1.6.1-9.2

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SuSE: blam 1.6.1-9.2

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/01/2005
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/08/2005
Modified
11/18/2015

Description

The blam RSS feedreader used LD_LIBRARY_PATH unsafely by allowing empty LD_LIBRARY_PATH components.

This would enable the program to load its shared libraries of the current directory which might contain user supplied shared libraries, potentially supplied from the network by an attacker.

Solution(s)

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