<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200704-19"> <title>Blender: User-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code</title> <synopsis> A vulnerability has been discovered in Blender allowing for user-assisted arbitrary code execution. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">Blender</product> <announced>2007-04-23</announced> <revised count="01">2007-04-23</revised> <bug>168907</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="media-gfx/blender" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.43</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.43</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Blender is a 3D creation, animation and publishing program. </p> </background> <description> <p> Stefan Cornelius of Secunia Research discovered an insecure use of the "eval()" function in kmz_ImportWithMesh.py. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Blender file (.kmz or .kml), resulting in the execution of arbitrary Python code with the privileges of the user running Blender. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Blender users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/blender-2.43"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1253">CVE-2007-1253</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-04-17T18:07:32Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-04-18T09:36:27Z"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-04-18T20:46:11Z"> p-y </metadata> </glsa>