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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200503-01">
+ <title>Qt: Untrusted library search path</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Qt may load shared libraries from an untrusted, world-writable directory,
+ resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">qt</product>
+ <announced>2005-03-01</announced>
+ <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised>
+ <bug>75181</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="x11-libs/qt" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">3.3.4-r2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">3.3.4-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Qt is a cross-platform GUI toolkit used by KDE.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has discovered
+ that Qt searches for shared libraries in an untrusted, world-writable
+ directory.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A local attacker could create a malicious shared object that would be
+ loaded by Qt, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the
+ privileges of the Qt application.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Qt users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r2"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0627">CVE-2005-0627</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-02-15T06:13:07Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-03-01T12:59:58Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>