[ MDVSA-2009:057 ] valgrind

[dude67]

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Package : valgrind
Date : February 26, 2009
Affected: 2008.0, 2008.1, 2009.0
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Problem Description:

A vulnerability has been identified and corrected in valgrind:

Untrusted search path vulnerability in valgrind before 3.4.0
allows local users to execute arbitrary programs via a Trojan horse
.valgrindrc file in the current working directory, as demonstrated
using a malicious --db-command options. NOTE: the severity of this
issue has been disputed, but CVE is including this issue because
execution of a program from an untrusted directory is a common
scenario. (CVE-2008-4865)

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2008-4865
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