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CVE-2005-4279

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: 2005-12-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Qt-UnixODBC before 3.3.4-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH.

Affected products

• gentoo Qt-Unixodbc: through 3.3.3

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/17232
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-14.xml
• http://www.osvdb.org/20087
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15120
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2119
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17232
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-14.xml
• http://www.osvdb.org/20087
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15120
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2119

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