[ MDVSA-2010:080 ] brltty

[dude67]

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Package : brltty
Date : April 17, 2010
Affected: 2008.0
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Problem Description:

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in brltty:

Untrusted search path vulnerability in libbrlttybba.so in brltty
3.7.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted library,
related to an incorrect RPATH setting (CVE-2008-3279).

Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0
customers.

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2008-3279
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