Bug 481553 (CVE-2008-5987)
| Summary: | CVE-2008-5987 eog: 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 NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | behdad, bnocera, bressers |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504352 | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2015-08-22 16:02:12 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| 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 10:40:31 UTC
This issue does NOT affect the versions of the eog package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This issue affects the versions of the eog package, as shipped with Fedora releases of 9, 10 and devel. Please fix. Affected file: src/eog-python-module.c: PySys_SetArgv (1, argv); This should not be an issue for Fedora packages either, as they do not seem to be built with python support. According to the build logs, affected file is not compiled at all. $ curl -s http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/eog/2.24.3.1/1.fc10/data/logs/i386/build.log | grep --color 'Python support' checking whether Python support is requested... Python support .............: no Similar for latest F11 build. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-5987 to this vulnerability: Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface in eog 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). References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5987 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504352 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481553 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 Statement: This issue does not affect the versions of the eog package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. |