Bug 1295361 (CVE-2015-0855)

Summary:	CVE-2015-0855 pitivi: insecure use of os.system()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	elad, gwync, hicham.haouari, otte, wtaymans
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	pitivi 0.95	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Martin Prpič 2016-01-04 09:06:14 UTC

A flaw was fixed in pitivi 0.95:

Double-clicking a file in the user's media library with a specially-crafted path or filename allows for arbitrary code execution with the permissions of the user running Pitivi.

An exploit scenario would require an attacker to provide a specially-crafted directory hierarchy or file path. Since Pitivi does not expose the path to the user, and a workflow of consuming content created by others is common when working with media files, such a scenario occurring is not hard to imagine.

This was fixed in version 0.95 with commit:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/pitivi/commit/?id=45a4c84edb3b4343f199bba1c65502e3f49f5bb2

External References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/574

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2016-01-04 09:06:46 UTC

Created pitivi tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1295362]