CVE-2008-5983

Description

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482814

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0122

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1448

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1616-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1596-1

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0027.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/30/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/28/5

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/26/2

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg586010.html

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-06.xml

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-41.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/51087

http://secunia.com/advisories/51040

http://secunia.com/advisories/51024

http://secunia.com/advisories/50858

http://secunia.com/advisories/42888

http://secunia.com/advisories/40194

http://secunia.com/advisories/34522

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/042751.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3