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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201401-27">
+ <title>GNU TeXmacs: Privilege escalation</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability in GNU TeXmacs could result in privilege
+ escalation.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">texmacs</product>
+ <announced>2014-01-26</announced>
+ <revised count="2">2014-01-26</revised>
+ <bug>337532</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-office/texmacs" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.0.7.2-r1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.7.2-r1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>GNU TeXmacs is a free WYSIWYG editing platform with special features for
+ scientists.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>The texmacs and tm_mupad_help scripts in TeXmacs place a zero-length
+ directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which might result in the current
+ working directory (.) to be included when searching for dynamically
+ linked libraries.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>A local attacker could gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted
+ shared library.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All GNU TeXmacs users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-office/texmacs-1.0.7.2-r1"
+ </code>
+
+ <p>NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are
+ available since April 02, 2011. It is likely that your system is already
+ no longer affected by this issue.
+ </p>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-3394">
+ CVE-2010-3394
+ </uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2011-10-07T23:38:13Z">
+ underling
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-01-26T00:54:29Z">Zlogene</metadata>
+</glsa>