Privilege Escalation via LD_LIBRARY_PATH in startkde

CVE-2002-0512 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

startkde in KDE for Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 through 3.1.1 sets the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to include the current working directory, which could allow local users to gain privileges of other users running startkde via Trojan horse libraries.

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