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From: Pierre-Yves Rofes <py@g.o>
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Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200904-06 ] Eye of GNOME: Untrusted search path
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:56:12
Message-Id: 49DA7A82.3060503@gentoo.org
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2 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-06
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7 Severity: Normal
8 Title: Eye of GNOME: Untrusted search path
9 Date: April 06, 2009
10 Bugs: #257002
11 ID: 200904-06
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15 Synopsis
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18 An untrusted search path vulnerability in the Eye of GNOME might result
19 in the execution of arbitrary code.
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21 Background
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24 The Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME Desktop
25 environment.
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27 Affected packages
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31 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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33 1 media-gfx/eog < 2.22.3-r3 >= 2.22.3-r3
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35 Description
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38 James Vega reported an untrusted search path vulnerability in the
39 GObject Python interpreter wrapper in the Eye of GNOME, a vulnerabiliy
40 related to CVE-2008-5983.
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42 Impact
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45 A local attacker could entice a user to run the Eye of GNOME from a
46 directory containing a specially crafted python module, resulting in
47 the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
48 the application.
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50 Workaround
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53 Do not run "eog" from untrusted working directories.
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55 Resolution
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58 All Eye of GNOME users should upgrade to the latest version:
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60 # emerge --sync
61 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/eog-2.22.3-r3"
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63 References
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66 [ 1 ] CVE-2008-5983
67 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983
68 [ 2 ] CVE-2008-5987
69 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5987
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71 Availability
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74 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
75 the Gentoo Security Website:
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77 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-06.xml
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79 Concerns?
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82 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
83 confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
84 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
85 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
86 http://bugs.gentoo.org.
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88 License
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91 Copyright 2009 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
92 belongs to its owner(s).
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94 The contents of this document are licensed under the
95 Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
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97 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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