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authorAlex Legler <alex@a3li.li>2015-03-08 22:02:38 +0100
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="201009-08">
+ <title>python-updater: Untrusted search path</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ An untrusted search path vulnerability in python-updater might result in
+ the execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">python-updater</product>
+ <announced>September 21, 2010</announced>
+ <revised>September 21, 2010: 01</revised>
+ <bug>288361</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-admin/python-updater" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.7-r1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">0.7-r1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ python-updater is a script used to remerge python packages when
+ changing Python version.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Robert Buchholz of the Gentoo Security Team reported that
+ python-updater includes the current working directory and
+ subdirectories in the Python module search path (sys.path) before
+ calling "import".
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>
+ A local attacker could entice the root user to run "python-updater"
+ from a directory containing a specially crafted Python module,
+ resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ Do not run "python-updater" from untrusted working directories.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All python-updater users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-admin/python-updater-0.7-r1&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references/>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:20:22 +0000">
+ craig
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:48:48 +0000">
+ craig
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:36:47 +0000">
+ craig
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>