Users of gnucash please be advised of a privilege-escalation vulnerability that has been identified.
To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)
Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in gnucash:
gnc-test-env in GnuCash 2.3.15 and earlier places a zero-length
directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to
gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current
working directory (CVE-2010-3999).
The affected /usr/bin/gnc-test-env file has been removed to mitigate
the CVE-2010-3999 vulnerability as gnc-test-env is only used for
tests and while building gnucash.
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/fnYlVZ
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