Executive Summary

Informations
Name MDVSA-2009:057 First vendor Publication 2009-02-26
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2009-02-26
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A vulnerability has been identified and corrected in valgrind:

Untrusted search path vulnerability in valgrind before 3.4.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs via a Trojan horse .valgrindrc file in the current working directory, as demonstrated using a malicious --db-command options. NOTE: the severity of this issue has been disputed, but CVE is including this issue because execution of a program from an untrusted directory is a common scenario. (CVE-2008-4865)

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:057

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 21

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-03-02 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:057 (valgrind)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_057.nasl
2009-02-13 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200902-03 (valgrind)
File : nvt/glsa_200902_03.nasl
2009-01-20 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:002
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_002.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
50262 valgrind .valgrindrc File Option Handling Search Path Subversion Arbitrary Lo...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2011-01-27 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_valgrind-5803.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_valgrind-081121.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-057.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-02-13 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200902-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-01 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_valgrind-5809.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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