source: uim date: December 5th, 2005 author: Neil McGovern vuln-type: local privilege escalation problem-scope: local debian-specifc: no cve: CVE-2005-3149 testing-fix: 1:0.4.7-2.0etch1 sid-fix: 1:0.4.7-2 upgrade: apt-get upgrade CVE-2005-3149 Masanari Yamamoto discovered that incorrect use of environment variables in uim. This bug causes privilege escalation if setuid/setgid applications was linked to libuim.