CVE-2005-3149

N/A Unknown

Published: October 05, 2005 Modified: April 16, 2026

Description

Uim 0.4.x before 0.4.9.1 and 0.5.0 and earlier does not properly handle the LIBUIM_VANILLA environment variable when a suid or sgid application is linked to libuim, such as immodule for Qt, which allows local users to gain privileges.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331620

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/uim/2005-September/001346.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/uim/2005-September/001347.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://secunia.com/advisories/17043

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/17058

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/17572

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015002

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-895

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-03.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15007

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1946

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1947

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331620