A vulnerability has been identified in Liferea, which could be exploited by local attackers to potentially obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an error in the starter script that does not properly set the "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" environment variable, which could be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into running a vulnerable application in a directory containing a specially crafted library file.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Novell.
ChangeLog
2007-11-22 : Initial release
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