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Bug 257000 (CVE-2008-5985)

Summary: <www-client/epiphany-2.22.3-r2 Untrusted search path vulnerability (CVE-2008-5985)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Stefan Behte (RETIRED) <craig>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: gnome
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504363
Whiteboard: B2 [glsa]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 256619    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 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) gentoo-dev 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 3 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 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) gentoo-dev 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) gentoo-dev 2009-02-25 18:31:03 UTC
Sparc stable, seems fine (tested with USE=xulrunner).
Comment 6 Markus Meier gentoo-dev 2009-02-25 20:04:16 UTC
amd64/x86 stable
Comment 7 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-26 14:44:06 UTC
alpha/ia64 stable
Comment 8 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-26 16:21:23 UTC
Stable for HPPA.
Comment 9 Brent Baude (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-26 17:31:12 UTC
ppc and ppc64 done
Comment 10 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-03-09 13:57:53 UTC
GLSA 200903-16