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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1613-2

Posted Oct 18, 2012

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1613-2 - USN-1613-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Python 2.5. This update provides the corresponding updates for Python 2.4. It was discovered that Python would prepend an empty string to sys.path under certain circumstances. A local attacker with write access to the current working directory could exploit this to execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, arbitrary, local, vulnerability, python

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2008-5983, CVE-2010-3493, CVE-2011-1015, CVE-2011-1521, CVE-2011-4940, CVE-2011-4944, CVE-2012-0845, CVE-2012-0876, CVE-2012-1148, CVE-2008-5983, CVE-2010-1634, CVE-2010-2089, CVE-2010-3493, CVE-2011-1015, CVE-2011-1521, CVE-2011-4940, CVE-2011-4944, CVE-2012-0845, CVE-2012-0876, CVE-2012-1148

SHA-256 | 03c1d61f1a7fd46df33c2cd303dd9df766d417bf63c2774bc68e006f265282de

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