Security Advisory

CVE-2010-4001

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-11-05 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 03:26:12
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

GMXRC.bash in Gromacs 4.5.1 and earlier places 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: CVE disputes this issue because the GMXLDLIB value is always added to the beginning of LD_LIBRARY_PATH at a later point in the script