CVE-2010-3351: Nick Copeland Bristol

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

startBristol in Bristol 0.60.5 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.

Affected products

• Nick Copeland Bristol: version 0.60.5 only; version 0.9.3 only; version 0.9.4-1 only; version 0.9.4-57 only; version 0.9.5-13 only; version 0.9.5-19 only; …

Published 2010-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.