CVE-2008-5987

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 200904-6

Posted Apr 7, 2009

Authored by Gentoo | Site security.gentoo.org

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-06 - An untrusted search path vulnerability in the Eye of GNOME might result in the execution of arbitrary code. James Vega reported an untrusted search path vulnerability in the GObject Python interpreter wrapper in the Eye of GNOME, a vulnerability related to CVE-2008-5983. Versions less than 2.22.3-r3 are affected.

tags | advisory, arbitrary, python

systems | linux, gentoo

advisories | CVE-2008-5983, CVE-2008-5987

SHA-256 | f361f11a9332c1aeffbeea882ecce779c48e9eefab14a74b77b88bcdabe26e14

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-063

Posted Mar 3, 2009

Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-063 - Python has a variable called sys.path that contains all paths where Python loads modules by using import scripting procedure. A wrong handling of that variable enables local attackers to execute arbitrary code via Python scripting in the current eog working directory. This update provides fix for that vulnerability.

tags | advisory, arbitrary, local, python

systems | linux, mandriva

advisories | CVE-2008-5987

SHA-256 | 7d5f8348c8180cb57da5367b9337064c16fd1fb59a680802ba899adff5f47f96

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