CVE-2010-3357

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2010-3357 · Published 20/10/2010 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2010-3357 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting gnome-subtitles (pedro castro).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.40%, higher than 34.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gnome-subtitles pedro_castro	`= 1.0`	No fix yet

Description

gnome-subtitles 1.0 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.

References

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi · Exploit
git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-subtitles/commit · Patch
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049184.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049275.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049288.html
secunia.com/advisories/41807

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