CVE-2005-3149

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-10-05 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Uim: through 0.5.0

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331620
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/uim/2005-September/001346.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/uim/2005-September/001347.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/17043
http://secunia.com/advisories/17058
http://secunia.com/advisories/17572
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015002
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-895
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-03.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15007
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1946
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1947

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