CVE-2010-4831

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: 2011-09-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-426

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in gdk/win32/gdkinput-win32.c in GTK+ before 2.21.8 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Wintab32.dll file in the current working directory.

Affected products

GNOME Gtk: before 2.21.8 — fixed in 2.21.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNOME Gtk 2.21.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.21/gtk+-2.21.8.changes
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/gdk/win32/gdkinput-win32.c?h=gtk-2-24&id=88f54ea47d4a55bbbf9e34a7a0502f365eb69ae5&ss=1
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN58019849/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2011-000072
http://secunia.com/advisories/45815
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49449
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.21/gtk+-2.21.8.changes
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/gdk/win32/gdkinput-win32.c?h=gtk-2-24&id=88f54ea47d4a55bbbf9e34a7a0502f365eb69ae5&ss=1
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN58019849/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2011-000072
http://secunia.com/advisories/45815
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49449

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