Bug 481551 (CVE-2008-5984)
| Summary: | CVE-2008-5984 dia: untrusted python modules search path | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | caolanm, hdegoede, psplicha |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504251 | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2015-08-22 15:07:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 482814 | ||
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Description
Jan Lieskovsky
2009-01-26 10:17:39 UTC
This issue affects all versions of the dia package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ This issue affects all versions of the dia package, as shipped with Fedora releases of 9, 10 and devel. Please fix. F-9, F-10 & devel pushed dia-0.96.1-9.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. dia-0.96.1-7.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-5984 to this vulnerability: Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python plugin in Dia 0.96.1, 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). References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5984 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504251 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33448 http://secunia.com/advisories/33672 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/48262 More explanation why this issue wasn't fixed in Python yet, can be found here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482814#c1 here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482814#c4 and here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482814#c5 Looks like the Python fix won't come anytime soon, so please fix the issue in the package, till we find the proper Python solution. Ray Strode's test case to check the work of the fix can be found here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481556#c8 |