gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200904-06.xml

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<glsa id="200904-06">
  <title>Eye of GNOME: Untrusted search path</title>
  <synopsis>
    An untrusted search path vulnerability in the Eye of GNOME might result in
    the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">eog</product>
  <announced>April 06, 2009</announced>
  <revised>April 06, 2009: 01</revised>
  <bug>257002</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-gfx/eog" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.22.3-r3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.22.3-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    The Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME Desktop
    environment.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    James Vega reported an untrusted search path vulnerability in the
    GObject Python interpreter wrapper in the Eye of GNOME, a vulnerabiliy
    related to CVE-2008-5983.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker could entice a user to run the Eye of GNOME from a
    directory containing a specially crafted python module, resulting in
    the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
    the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    Do not run "eog" from untrusted working directories.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Eye of GNOME users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=media-gfx/eog-2.22.3-r3&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983">CVE-2008-5983</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5987">CVE-2008-5987</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:38:51 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:40:09 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>