<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200904-03"> <title>Gnumeric: Untrusted search path</title> <synopsis> An untrusted search path vulnerability in Gnumeric might result in the execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">gnumeric</product> <announced>2009-04-03</announced> <revised count="01">2009-04-03</revised> <bug>257012</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="app-office/gnumeric" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.8.4-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.4-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> The Gnumeric spreadsheet is a versatile application developed as part of the GNOME Office project. </p> </background> <description> <p> James Vega reported an untrusted search path vulnerability in the GObject Python interpreter wrapper in Gnumeric. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A local attacker could entice a user to run Gnumeric from a directory containing a specially crafted python module, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Gnumeric. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> Do not run "gnumeric" from untrusted working directories. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Gnumeric users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-office/gnumeric-1.8.4-r1"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0318">CVE-2009-0318</uri> </references> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-04-02T12:39:58Z"> rbu </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-04-02T12:40:05Z"> rbu </metadata> </glsa>