Bug 257000 – <www-client/epiphany-2.22.3-r2 Untrusted search path vulnerability (CVE-2008-5985)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) 2009-01-30 22:30:13 UTC]

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 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2009-01-30 23:41:08 UTC]

I am not sure whether this bug is being tracked upstream. Please see the blocker for details and a patch example.

[Comment 2 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2009-01-30 23:44:29 UTC]

Debian patch:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=sanitize_sys.path.diff;att=1;bug=504363

[Comment 3 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2009-02-24 16:59:47 UTC]

2.22.3-r2 and 2.22.3-r12 are in the tree.

[Comment 4 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2009-02-25 17:11:24 UTC]

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 Ferris McCormick (RETIRED) 2009-02-25 18:31:03 UTC]

Sparc stable, seems fine (tested with USE=xulrunner).

[Comment 6 Markus Meier 2009-02-25 20:04:16 UTC]

amd64/x86 stable

[Comment 7 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2009-02-26 14:44:06 UTC]

alpha/ia64 stable

[Comment 8 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2009-02-26 16:21:23 UTC]

Stable for HPPA.

[Comment 9 Brent Baude (RETIRED) 2009-02-26 17:31:12 UTC]

ppc and ppc64 done

[Comment 10 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2009-03-09 13:57:53 UTC]

GLSA 200903-16