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TITLE:
Banshee LD_LIBRARY_PATH Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA42237

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RELEASE DATE:
2010-11-13

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DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in Banshee, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the "/usr/bin/banshee-1" and
"/usr/bin/muinshee" scripts incorrectly setting the environment
variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH and GST_PLUGIN_PATH. This can be exploited
to gain escalated privileges e.g. by tricking a user into running the
script in a directory containing a malicious library.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 1.9.0.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.9.0.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/unstable/1.9.0/banshee-1-1.9.0.news

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