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Bug#: 92926
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Gentoo Security <security@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2005-05-17 08:00 0000 
Description:
Brian Bird has reported a vulnerability in Cheetah, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
 
 The vulnerability is caused due to Cheetah searching for modules in the world-writable "/tmp" directory before looking in the PythonPath when importing modules. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges by placing a malicious module in the "/tmp" directory.

Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 0.9.17-rc1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Brian Bird

------- Comment #1 From Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-05-17 10:28:59 0000 ------- 
Python team, please bump

------- Comment #2 From Rob Cakebread 2005-05-17 14:10:03 0000 ------- 
Bumped to 0.9.17-rc1 in CVS, removed vulnerable versions.

------- Comment #3 From Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen 2005-05-17 14:19:59 0000 ------- 
Thx for the swift reaction. Committed directly to stable this one is ready for 
GLSA.

------- Comment #4 From Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen 2005-05-19 10:02:00 0000 ------- 
GLSA 200505-14
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