National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5983

Overview

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv API function in Python 2.6 and earlier, and possibly later versions, prepends an empty string to sys.path when the argv[0] argument does not contain a path separator, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory.

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External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482814

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482814

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20090130 Re: CVE request -- Python < 2.6 PySys_SetArgv issues (epiphany, csound, dia, eog, gedit, xchat, vim, nautilus-python, Gnumeric)

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/30/2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20090128 Re: CVE request -- Python < 2.6 PySys_SetArgv issues (epiphany, csound, dia, eog, gedit, xchat, vim, nautilus-python, Gnumeric)

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/28/5

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20090126 CVE request -- Python < 2.6 PySys_SetArgv issues (epiphany, csound, dia, eog, gedit, xchat, vim, nautilus-python, Gnumeric)

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [debian-bugs-rc] 20080805 Bug#484305: bicyclerepair: bike.vim imports untrusted python files from cwd

Hyperlink:http://www.nabble.com/Bug-484305%3A-bicyclerepair%3A-bike.vim-imports-untrusted-python-files-from-cwd-td18848099.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [debian-bugs] 20081112 Bug#493937: [Patch] Prevent loading of Python modules in working directory

Hyperlink:http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg586010.html

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200904-06

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-06.xml

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200903-41

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-41.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34522

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34522