Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gnustep-base (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1610-GNUSTEPBASE-668413
- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed12 May 2010
Introduced: 12 May 2010
CVE-2010-1457 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnustep-base package and not the gnustep-base package as distributed by Ubuntu.
Tools/gdomap.c in gdomap in GNUstep Base before 1.20.0 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a (1) -c or (2) -a option, which prints file contents in an error message.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2010-1457
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40005
- http://ftpmain.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core/gnustep-base-1.20.0.tar.gz
- http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29755
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnustep-base/+bug/573108
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnustep.bugs/12336
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/05/07/6
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39746