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Bug#: 257000
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Gentoo Security <security@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Stefan Behte <craig@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2009-01-30 22:30 0000 
CVE-2008-5985 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5985):
  Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface in
  Epiphany 2.22.3, and possibly other versions, allows local users to
  execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current
  working directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv
  function (CVE-2008-5983).

------- Comment #1 From Robert Buchholz 2009-01-30 23:41:08 0000 ------- 
I am not sure whether this bug is being tracked upstream. Please see the
blocker for details and a patch example.

------- Comment #2 From Robert Buchholz 2009-01-30 23:44:29 0000 ------- 
Debian patch:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=sanitize_sys.path.diff;att=1;bug=504363

------- Comment #3 From Daniel Gryniewicz 2009-02-24 16:59:47 0000 ------- 
2.22.3-r2 and 2.22.3-r12 are in the tree.

------- Comment #4 From Robert Buchholz 2009-02-25 17:11:24 0000 ------- 
Arches, please test and mark stable:
=www-client/epiphany-2.22.3-r2
Target keywords : "alpha amd64 hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"

------- Comment #5 From Ferris McCormick 2009-02-25 18:31:03 0000 ------- 
Sparc stable, seems fine (tested with USE=xulrunner).

------- Comment #6 From Markus Meier 2009-02-25 20:04:16 0000 ------- 
amd64/x86 stable

------- Comment #7 From Raúl Porcel 2009-02-26 14:44:06 0000 ------- 
alpha/ia64 stable

------- Comment #8 From Jeroen Roovers 2009-02-26 16:21:23 0000 ------- 
Stable for HPPA.

------- Comment #9 From Brent Baude 2009-02-26 17:31:12 0000 ------- 
ppc and ppc64 done

------- Comment #10 From Robert Buchholz 2009-03-09 13:57:53 0000 ------- 
GLSA 200903-16
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