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<glsa id="200505-14">
  <title>Cheetah: Untrusted module search path</title>
  <synopsis>
    Cheetah contains a vulnerability in the module importing code that can
    allow a local user to gain escalated privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Cheetah</product>
  <announced>May 19, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 17, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>92926</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-python/cheetah" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.9.17_rc1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.9.17_rc1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Cheetah is a Python powered template engine and code generator.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Brian Bird discovered that Cheetah searches for modules in the
    world-writable /tmp directory.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A malicious local user could place a module containing arbitrary code
    in /tmp, which when imported would run with escalated privileges.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There are no known workarounds at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Cheetah users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-python/cheetah-0.9.17_rc1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://secunia.com/advisories/15386/">Secunia Advisory SA15386</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 17 May 2005 21:18:59 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 17 May 2005 21:38:15 +0000">
    r2d2
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 18 May 2005 11:47:34 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>