CVE-2008-5983

Advisory

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv API function in Python 2.6 and earlier, and possibly later versions, prepends an empty string to sys.path when the argv[0] argument does not contain a path separator, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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Resources

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2
• http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg586010.html
• http://www.nabble.com/Bug-484305%3A-bicyclerepair%3A-bike.vim-imports-untrusted-python-files-from-cwd-td18848099.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/28/5
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482814
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/30/2
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-41.xml
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34522
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-06.xml
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/042751.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1448
• http://secunia.com/advisories/40194
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0027.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42888
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0122
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1596-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-2
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51040
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50858
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1616-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51087
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51024
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5983
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5983
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983