CVE-2010-3382 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tau (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed20 Oct 2010
Introduced: 20 Oct 2010
CVE-2010-3382 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tau package and not the tau package as distributed by Ubuntu.
tauex in Tuning and Analysis Utilities (TAU) 2.16.4 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.