Secunia Security Advisory - A security issue has been reported in libtool, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to potentially gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
libtool libltdl Library Search Path Privilege Escalation Security
Issue
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37489
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37489/
DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in libtool, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to potentially gain escalated privileges.
The security issue is caused due to the current working directory
potentially being used as search path for libraries.
For more information:
SA37414
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?h=branch-1-5&id=29b48580df75f0c5baa2962548a4c101ec7ed7ec
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2009-11/msg00059.html
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?h=branch-1-5&id=29b48580df75f0c5baa2962548a4c101ec7ed7ec
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA37414:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37414/
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