CVE-2008-5987
First published: Sun Nov 02 2008(Updated: )
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface in Eye of GNOME (eog) 2.22.3, and possibly other versions, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv function (CVE-2008-5983).
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Eye of GNOME | =2.22.3 |
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Reference Links
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481553
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504352
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33443
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-06.xml
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504352#4
- http://www.nabble.com/Bug-484305%3A-bicyclerepair%3A-bike.vim-imports-untrusted-python-files-from-cwd-td18848099.html
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=02_sanitize_sys.path.patch;att=1;bug=504352
- http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/eog/2.24.3.1/1.fc10/data/logs/i386/build.log
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5987
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5983
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5987
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=481553
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=482814#c1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=482814#c4
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=482814#c5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=481556#c8
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5987 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5987
- https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2008-5987.json
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