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Gentoo Linux XnView Insecure RPATH Vulnerability

Solution:
Gentoo has released advisory GLSA 200510-14, along with fixes to address this issue. Users of affected packages are urged to execute the following commands with superuser privileges:

emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-misc/xnview-1.70-r1"

System administrators may use the chrpath utility to remove the DT_RPATH field from the XnView utilities by carrying out the following commands:

emerge app-admin/chrpath
chrpath --delete /opt/bin/nconvert /opt/bin/nview /opt/bin/xnview








 

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