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CVE-2008-5985

Published: Jan 28, 2009

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface in Epiphany 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).

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vdb-entry

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vendor-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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

mailing-list

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http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504363

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481548

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vendor-advisory

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