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CVE-2010-4005

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: 2010-11-06 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The (1) tomboy and (2) tomboy-panel scripts in GNOME Tomboy 1.5.2 and earlier place a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory. NOTE: vector 1 exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2005-4790.2.

Affected products

• GNOME Tomboy: through 1.5.2; 1.0.1, 1.2.2, 1.4.2, 1.5.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:035
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0457
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644606
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:035
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0457
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644606

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