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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1616-1

Posted Oct 25, 2012

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1616-1 - 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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It was discovered that the audioop module did not correctly perform input validation. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted audio file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash. These issues only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary, local, python

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2008-5983, CVE-2011-4944, CVE-2012-0845, CVE-2012-1150, CVE-2012-2135, CVE-2008-5983, CVE-2010-1634, CVE-2010-2089, CVE-2011-4944, CVE-2012-0845, CVE-2012-1150, CVE-2012-2135

SHA-256 | 1931d6208c03b7c6be3e7c9a1e3f736d6f4ffc3c455852a5625822b4d83fefbe

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